[otterlicious]

Or if you're blocked by the root password prompt add `init=/bin/bash` and make your filesystem writable if necessary with `mount -oremount,rw /`

[zaarn]

This will block systemd however. The nice thing about the emergency shell is that you can use systemd things like trying to mount filesystems. And you can later isolate multi-user to continue the boot when you finished your fix. /bin/bash would be atleast useful to try to get a root password set.