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Getting 'You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit" to boot into default mode' after rebooting Linux Mint 21.1 Vera

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On my Linux Mint 21.1 Vera machine, rebooting the machine would show the following early in the boot process

You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit" to boot into default mode.
Press Enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):

For my specific case this happended because I have a USB drive connected to the CPU. Removing the the USB drive and rebooting the machine allow me to continue with the boot process.
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