This smells a lot like bug 953875. To confirm, can you please give me the output of
cat /etc/crypttab sudo blkid Does it boot again if you comment out the cryptswap1 device from /etc/crypttab? ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1443413 Title: can't boot with systemd Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Booting with systemd fails always at same stage. Using upstart just works. grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="systemd.log_target=kmsg systemd.log_level=debug" grep debug /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /vmlinuz-3.19.0-13-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg-root ro systemd.log_target=kmsg systemd.log_level=debug Sadly systemd-debug doesn't reveals more information what fails :-( lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) Release: 15.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1443413/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp