Home Assistant stuck in boot loop, rescue slot B

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I did some searching here and on Google but nothing quite fit what I’m experiencing. I’ve been running HA as a virtual machine (HAOS) for the past two years and it’s been solid. Recently, HA had been losing communication with the Zooz USB Z-Wave stick so I would reboot the ESXi machine and everything would work again. This time, however, HA didn’t boot back up. Instead, it flashes something about “Rescue Slot B” and ends with

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You are in rescue mode. After logging in, type “journalctl -xb” to view system logs, “systemctl reboot”, “systemctl default” or “exit” to boot into default mode. Press enter for maintenance

I have caught it during boot and tried Slot A, Slot A Rescue Mode, and Slot B, but all end up at the same prompt.

Am I dead in the water here? Not sure what to do.

By the way, the VM has 8GB RAM, 40GB disk space, and 2 processors.

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I had the same problem, and probably @Fen had the same here: HAOS no longer booting
I’m using VirtualBox, and ended up with installing my image on other hardware. Luckily I make a network backup of the entire image, on my NAS, every time I upgrade, so only lost 3 days of statistics and have been living in the dark for some time :wink:
The thing that started the problem for me, was install of some Coral-stick drivers.

Sorry I cant offer some help, but perhaps raising some awareness can help you get to a solution - Really hope you will get it solved.

But TGIF and we have a bit more spare time :wink: