fstab entry for disconnected drive causes boot failure (jessie, kernel 4.8.3) (1 reply)

I finally completed updating my kernel to v4.8.3 and my distribution to jessie (thanks, bodhi), but my Dockstar wouldn't complete the boot process. I traced it to an old fstab entry for a hard disk I no longer use, but may want to connect again in the future:

UUID=FCF0061DF005DEB0       /media/500GB            ntfs    rw              0       0

Before the update/upgrade, this never caused a problem. Now during the boot process I see:

[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-FCF...005DEB0.device.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for /media/500GB.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Local File Systems.
...
Welcome to emergGive root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

So what am I doing wrong? How do I keep an entry in fstab that doesn't keep the system from booting such that I can connect/disconnect a hard drive at will. And, just out of curiosity, is this something that changed in the kernel or in jessie or have I always been doing this improperly? Or, is it a systemd/udev thing (can't tell you how overjoyed I am to see that systemd has infected my system)?

Thanks!
-JT