I recently had a hard drive fail. It was encrypted with LUKS and the system would not boot after the failure. I was able to use the emergency disk to access FSTAB and remove it, so the system now boots. However, it is still trying to mount the drive and stalls with a 90 second timer waiting for the drive to show up. Is there somewhere that this drive is still defined? I did a system search using kfind for the UUID but nothing shows up. There is still a LUKS encrypted partition which mounts successfully.
/et/crypttab ??
I assume you removed the entry for that file system from /etc/fstab (and not the whole of /etc/fstab).
Did you have a swap partition on that drive? The “initrd” might have the location of swap.
To first question - yes I only removed the bad disk from fstab. To the second, I didn’t have swap configured on the disk.