On 9/12/20 1:04 PM, Quinn Comendant wrote: > I don't see any errors from `systemctl status initrd-parse-etc.service` or > `journalctl -b 0` (I've pasted the full output here:https://write.as/at21opjv3o9fin1t.txt) I see errors in the journalctl output. Look into these: Sep 12 19:41:12 myhost systemd-vconsole-setup[84]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71. Sep 12 19:41:12 myhost systemd-vconsole-setup[84]: ................... Sep 12 19:41:12 myhost systemd-vconsole-setup[84]: setfont: putfont: 512,8x16: failed: -1 Sep 12 19:41:12 myhost systemd-vconsole-setup[84]: putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument Sep 12 19:41:12 myhost systemd-vconsole-setup[117]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71. Sep 12 19:41:13 myhost systemd[1]: [/etc/systemd/system.conf:15] Unknown lvalue 'TimeoutSec' in section 'Manager' The former errors might be normal on a system with no VGA, and you mentioned seeing this over serial. Do you see those errors on systems that boot normally? Do any of those system share a hardware configuration with the system that doesn't? The latter error seems more likely to be the cause of the emergency shell, but that's a guess.