systemd fails to boot most of the time

[Tom H]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Fr, 2017-02-24 at 13:28 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My second thought is to rebuild your current initramfs:
>>>>
>>>> cd /boot
>>>> update-initramfs -ut -k $(name -r)
>>>
>>> But boots work, intermittently. As initramfs is RO, it can't be an
>>> error in that, can it?
>>
>> The intermittnent success/failure is weird (and Ralph might be
>> correct in wonderting whather it's hardware-related) but I was
>> thinking that the initramfs might have an incorrect fstab.
>
> there is no fstab in the initrd :)

I remember doing an lsinitramfs and seeing an fstab; perhaps not.