[ajross]

> But recently, when I changed my fstab file to mount a drive at boot, I made a typo. My system wouldn't boot at all

I don't know exactly what went wrong in your case, but killing Unix systems by messing with fstab has been a rite of passage for more than four decades. Systemd certainly didn't invent that. Hell, I broke a chromebook not 48 hours ago messing with the boot setup.

But FWIW: managing a recovery image is, amusingly, not historically a job systemd has tried to take on. This is what your live image is for.

[viseztrance]

I've been using linux on my desktop for almost 20 years. This was the first time I couldn't get a shell to fix my problem.