How to prevent boot from pausing when a drive has failed

Using 14.04.

While hundreds of miles from home, I SSHed into my system only to find one of the drives had failed (not the OS drive obviously). I foolishly rebooted it thinking it was worth a shot.....but I was never able coect again.

When I got home it tus out it was stuck on the message "the disk drive for [share] is not ready yet or not present" and it was asking if it should Skip or do a manual mount. Had it defaulted to "skip" things would have tued out better.

Lesson: never remotely reboot unless absolutely necessary.

Is there a way to default to Skip should this happen again?