Systemd Emergency Mode on Boot

I am sorry if this is in the wrong forum section.
When I boot my Archlinux computer, I am taken to an "emergency mode" screen. It is clearly part of systemd, and I cannot start my regular graphical environment. I have been using Arch for a few months, and I have had minor systemd troubles but nothing as serious as this. I am currently in a Linux Mint Live CD so I can post this.
I researched the problem, and found that the systemd may have failed to mount critical drives. I looked at my /etc/fstab file, and it seems to be kind of wonky (my boot partition is after my root partition, UUIDs seem to be wrong). I do not know how to fix this emergency mode problem.
Please help; any help is appreciated.

By now, I didn't do something that solve the problem. Sorry by my side.
Idea's goal: try to login in a tty using rescue.target. And from there launch systemd's multi-user.target to see what fails. I don't know if it'll used for something (I'm saying something like "press all keys to see what's up").
For boot in rescue.target. You can use a kernel parameter:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ent_target
or another way (if kernel parameter points to default.target): change symbolic link from default.target to rescue.target
ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/rescue.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
If you get a login try to change current run level.
Edit:
but, maybe it is the same that grub's fallback mode.
emergency.target???
Last edited by Alber (2013-12-15 12:23:22)

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