Re: Determining why I'm getting dropped to the emergency shell?

[George N. White III]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 19:44, Adam Mercer  wrote:
> I found the problem, there was a typo in my /etc/fstab, my fat fingers
> has caused some extraneous characters to be added to the end one of my
> drives UUID so it was failing to mount.

Roger has some good advice.  Another useful practice is to preserve your
original
fstab and check your changes with diff.   In the bad old days keyboards
were larger
but when working over phone lines using a modem it was all to common to
find random
garbage added to files and command lines.