De acordo com este documento, as pessoas inteligentes que já são já colocaram em prática um console de resgate
$ systemctl enable debug-shell.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/debug-shell.service → /lib/systemd/system/debug-shell.service.
Isso é ativado em tty9. Você pode acessar pressionando Ctrl alt F9 ou Ctrl alt [esquerda / direita] para alternar para o tty correto conforme a necessidade.
cat /lib/systemd/system/debug-shell.service
# This file is part of systemd.
#
# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
[Unit]
Description=Early root shell on /dev/tty9 FOR DEBUGGING ONLY
Documentation=man:sushell(8)
DefaultDependencies=no
IgnoreOnIsolate=yes
ConditionPathExists=/dev/tty9
[Service]
Environment=TERM=linux
ExecStart=/bin/bash
Restart=always
RestartSec=0
StandardInput=tty
TTYPath=/dev/tty9
TTYReset=yes
TTYVHangup=yes
KillMode=process
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
# bash ignores SIGTERM
KillSignal=SIGHUP
# Unset locale for the console getty since the console has problems
# displaying some internationalized messages.
Environment=LANG= LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE= LC_NUMERIC= LC_TIME= LC_COLLATE= LC_MONETARY= LC_MESSAGES= LC_PAPER= LC_NAME= LC_ADDRESS= LC_TELEPHONE= LC_MEASUREMENT= LC_IDENTIFICATION=
[Install]
WantedBy=sysinit.target