Booting into emergency mode - Help!

[Hunter Jozwiak]

That's very odd. Maybe the grub2.cfg file had something that got commented out?

On 3/23/14, Arthur Dent <misc.lists at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> For reasons I won't bore you with I am stuck on F17 for the moment (At
> Easter I have some time off and intend to upgrade then).
>
> I had left the kernel on 3.8.13-100FC17 which worked just fine, but had
> to install some packages this weekend and allowed the kernel to update
> too. Now when I first rebooted I got an error:
> Cannot open font file True
> Welcome to emergency mode. Use "systemctl default" or ^D to enter
> default mode.
>
> I followed some tutorials I found which indicated changing
> "SYSFONT=True" to "SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16" and running
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> This I did, and now the "Cannot open font file True" message is gone,
> but it still fails to boot, giving me:
> Welcome to emergency mode. Use "systemctl default" or ^D to enter
> default mode.
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D to continue)
>
> I tried to boot into my previous - working - kernel, but no joy - same
> message.
>
> This machine is my mail server so I would really appreciate some help!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mark
>
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