Recovery mode does *not* ask for a root password on Ubuntu. It never
has.
If you don't want a partition to mount on boot, it should be marked
"noauto" in the fstab options. There is no way for init to know if the
partition is necessary for boot or not, so the safest thing is for it to
simply cease trying to boot (rather than ending up in an unusable state,
where /usr or /var is missing). And that is why it throws you to a root
prompt: so you can correct your fstab.
This isn't a bug.
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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boot stops if partition absent
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66394
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