PC won't boot with nvme data drive (ext4 formatted) mounted

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Hi
i installed AlmaLinux yesterday (AlmaLinux release 9.6 (Sage Margay)) and all went well. Rebooting was no issue. Yesterday I mounted my backup data nvme ssd on /srv/nvme and rebooted, but the process was interrupted with ‘You are in emergency mode’ warning and failed to continue.
I used nano and edited out the mounting of the nvme drive and the machine rebooted normally again.
Tried editing fstab to ‘/dev/nvme0n1p1’ format but that did the same.
After rebooting I can mount the drive with ‘Files’ and is accessible as normal.

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The recommended way is to use the UUID to specify a filesystem as that should be persistent (and unique, except for software RAID mirrors, clones, multipaths, etc).

I do usually add

noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=300

to options in fstab. That delays the mount to first access (after system is up).

The real question is why the mount fails?

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Nope, your suggestion did not work.
After I reboot I do:

sudo mount UUID=3d6c41d6-1467-4238-a7ab-ef255eeedb3e /srv/nvme

and that works fine. Weird.

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Installed ELRepo and latest kernel did not work either.

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Installed Almalinux 10.0
Mounting of nvme ssd using fstab is back to normal.

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