I have reproduced this on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS AWS AMI. Resolving an
error is particularly nasty when using cloud services, as a second,
running instance is required to debug the cause of boot failures. On
AWS, this involves removing the EBS system volume from the instance then
mounting it temporarily on another. (Rackspace has a recovery mode that
does this automagically.) Any expectation of user input from the console
is just innappropriate for cloud environments. It would be useful, in
the event of mount failures of non-system-volumes to boot into some sort
of ILOM or recovery-mode with SSH running. This would allow the operator
to manually repair the instance.

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    Boot process hang because 'mountall' fails

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