Boot Error from SSD on Raspberry PI 4

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hello everyone.
I am quite desperate…

After more than one year of using Home Assistant OS on my Raspberry Pi 4 on a SSD disk connected via USB3, yesterday I had a big issue.
All of a sudden the system became not reachable both via browser and ssh.
(I discovered the issue because at sunset no automation has been triggered)
I tried to restart the Raspberry and it enters in a sort of loop where it tries to boot from the SSD (so it successfully starts the boot procedure from USB) but then immediately reboots (I just get a black screen for a fraction of a second and then it reboots). The Raspberry keeps doing like that in a loop.
If I disconnect the USB SSD and boot from SD (with Raspian) the system works.

Any suggestion on how to recover/repair my Home Assistant OS?

I tried to connect the SSD to UBUNTU and it seems everything ok (so the disk appears to not be broken), the disk utility says the disk is ok.

I would really need help here since I do not have even a backup of my system :(.

Many thanks.

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I have had an issue since 0S 8.0 was released. On a reboot I need to disconnect my SSD (on a hub). Power off the pi, reboot the pi without connecting the SSD, power off, connect the SSD and power on.

I have an open GitHub issue on this and I have seen other issues in the RPI forums.

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Many thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately I already tried this and it did not solved the issue.

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Hopefully you are a current backup. If you do just reinstall ha to the SSD and restore your backup. Not worth the time trying to get it working.

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I do not have a regular back up but it seems that from Ubuntu I can see all files in the ssd.
Which files/folders I need to copy to restore a full backup ?

Is it possibile to backup/restore in this way?

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I wish I could be of better help, but I am not sure how to do a manual restore. You may want to ask in discord and maybe (if you are lucky someone can walk you through this). Once backup, make sure you have some type of automatic backup. I use the google drive backup and it works great.

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Do you have a link the Github issue?

I was unable to find it.

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Hi Edo,
I have the same issue. Did you find any solution? I also tried what @bschatzow suggested but it didn’t help me.

It is driving me crazy because this issue came out this afternoon while nobody was at home and I didn’t make any update recently…

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Sorry to say that I had to restore with a previous backup. There was no way to get out from that

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thx for your quick response. I just restore from my previous backup (I do it everyday) but connecting a screen to my rpi I still see:
“critical medium error, dev sda, sector blablabla”
"I/O error, dev sda, sector blablabla "
Since I don’t know what caused this issue, I don’t know where to get back…

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My suggestion is to check if with another ssd or sd everything works. What I did is format and to reinstall a clean version. After I restored my backup. If with another sd the raspberry does not work maybe it has a problem?

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I finally solved it! I started again from scratch and restored my backup twice. The second time I tryed to plug my SSD on usb 2.0 instead of 3.0 and it worked!
I finally did it with no errors on bootload. Thanks for your support :slight_smile: