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This morning, I did a fresh install via http and for some reason, its booting to emergency mode. The system starts booting and then a few seconds after reaching the graphical splash everything hangs for a while and then I'm kicked to emergency mode. When I get to emergency mode, I'm able to start kde, but things like sound and networking are not working. I have a pretty generic system, with an A8-3850 APU, Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H main board, 8 GB RAM & no expansion cards.

I can provide the entire output of the journalctl -xb if needed, but I think I found where the issue is, I just have no idea how to proceed:

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Apr 23 07:06:24 bitStorm kernel: EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: acl
Apr 23 07:07:50 bitStorm systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-1CF0\x2d0E53.device/start timed out.
Apr 23 07:07:50 bitStorm systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-1CF0\x2d0E53.device.
-- Subject: Unit dev-disk-by\x2duuid-1CF0\x2d0E53.device has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit dev-disk-by\x2duuid-1CF0\x2d0E53.device has failed.
--
-- The result is timeout.
Apr 23 07:07:50 bitStorm systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /mnt/hd.
-- Subject: Unit mnt-hd.mount has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit mnt-hd.mount has failed.
--
-- The result is dependency.
Apr 23 07:07:50 bitStorm systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Local File Systems.
-- Subject: Unit local-fs.target has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit local-fs.target has failed.
--
-- The result is dependency.
Apr 23 07:07:50 bitStorm systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Mark the need to relabel after reboot.
-- Subject: Unit fedora-autorelabel-mark.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit fedora-autorelabel-mark.service has failed.
--
-- The result is dependency.
Apr 23 07:07:50 bitStorm systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Relabel all filesystems, if necessary.
-- Subject: Unit fedora-autorelabel.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit fedora-autorelabel.service has failed.
--
-- The result is dependency.
Apr 23 07:07:50 bitStorm systemd[1]: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies of local-fs.target.
Apr 23 07:07:50 bitStorm systemd[1]: Starting Save boot dmesg content...
-- Subject: Unit mandriva-save-dmesg.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--


Everything before that seems to start OK, and everything after is just services shutting down and going into emergency mode.

OK, I figued it out. After looking at it a bit more, I thought it might be something related to the flash drive mount. So, I plugged in my flash drive and everything booted fine. Removing an entry for the flash drive that was placed in the fstab file fixed the problem.

Did you maybe install Mageia with the flash drive plugged in?
Hopefully this will be fixed for Mageia 5 as it's quite nasty: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12631

Yes, that was it. I booted from the flash drive and then started a net install. Thanks for pointing out that bug report, that was my problem exactly.