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  • You could try editing (at boot time) the grub boot prompt and add or replace root=/dev/sda2 to the command line just before actually booting Debian. If this works, then well I don't know what else (grub issue?). Also if you did this just at the wrong time when having on Debian udev 240-2 or 240-3 (and not -4) then you hit a systemd/udev bug Commented Jan 16, 2019 at 22:54
  • yeah try commenting things out of fstab, I've seen stray entries therein send Ubuntu boots to sudden systemd emergency mode Commented Jan 17, 2019 at 2:37
  • Why not provide the journalctl -xb as that error message mentions? Commented Jan 17, 2019 at 14:50
  • @jdwolf I will do in a couple of hours when I get home. Commented Jan 17, 2019 at 15:13
  • Provide an lsblk -f output Commented Jan 19, 2019 at 20:42