Comment # 1 on bug 964447 from Franck Bui

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #0)
> When I built a kernel with localyesconfig and runs the system without
> initrd, the system boots almost fine but the root disk is still mounted in
> read-only.
> 
> The log shows that systemd-remounte-fs.service exists with FAILURE.

It would help if you could show the log and maybe the output of 'systemctl
status systemd-remounte-fs.service"