Hi,
since 2 days I get a boot error. Booting stops at “Switching to root”. This starts with the last updates. I believe one package, I don’t know which is causing this problem. Stepping back to a snapshot prior the updates let me boot the PC.
How can I solve this or how can I be more specific, which components causes this error?
Peter
I’ve noticed this issue of the boot stopping at Starting Switch Root across a few different machines in the past few days. I’ve been following a recent thread about it over at: System stuck at switch root but the boot process continue by pressing enter button. Is this a serious error? - Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware - EndeavourOS
The issue doesn’t seem to happen on every boot either. 
Not sure what the exact cause is to it (other that something strange with initrd-switch-root.service ), but you should be able to proceed by pressing Enter.
EDIT: Just tested it with a boot that was stopping at that Switch Root message, and pressing Enter did let it proceed.
Arrow down, pressing one or two times does the same to me.
Pressing “Enter” works.
Apparently even other distros had similar issues:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325780
systemd just merged a fix that should remedy the boot hang issue:
If it is the same thing that was effecting them, it should be fixed real soon when the new version is available. (I see systemd 257.1-1 is already in Core-Testing)
Just glad the work around is very easy to do at least. Only if other issues were worked around simply by pressing any key… 
Thank you for the discussion and the insight. I just updated yesterday and booting Linux Zen will give me the same disconcerting problem. I hard-reset the system and then tried Linux LTS which has been booting without any interaction.
Will try Enter next time.
I did 2 updates just now and I the issue is fixed on machines I was having the issue.
systemd 257.1-1 is now available in the regular Core repo and should fix the issue. If the issue somehow persists after a garuda-update , please let us know.
(The issue didn’t happen on every boot for me before so I will have to test it more… but so far so good!)
First boot after the udate was successfull. 
Wish you all Merry Christmas! 
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