[PROBLEM] Not starting after reboot

[japumpy]

I had those kind of problem since moOde 5 series, randomly when reboot or power failure, it failed to reboot, systemd goes to emergency mode.

I finally found the problem, im using SD CARD 200go, and when fsck run at boot, it take ~3 minutes to check the card, but Systemd, by default, goes to emergency mode after 90s of waiting. I tried with many sdcard (SANDISK, class 10) and pi, and each time same problem.

So the answer was this:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add x-systemd.device-timeout=10min to /boot partition

Code:

PARTUUID=6c586e13-01  /boot           vfat    defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=10min          0       2

And problem was gone.

Im not sure it's the same for you, since you're using smaller SD CARD, but the symptoms match, so it could be worth trying.

Thanks for that. I'm ashamed to say that I'm having some issues in running ssh on my Win 10 machine. I'm getting some unexpected results when I try to log in. Still trying to understand (from my limited perspective) what I'm doing wrong :-) However, I will indeed try what you have discuovered once I've overcome my present issue. Thank you very much.
BTW I'm using Sandisk & Emtech cards all of differing sizes (not that it matters).
Cheers!