[SOLVED] Proxmox wont boot after power failure: (Time out waiting for device)

mrmuttley

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Hi all,
I'm a real n00b so please bear with me.

My machine running Proxmox got unintentionally turned off after a power failure and now it won't boot beyond the emergency mode screen:
(apologies for sharing images as I'm not sure how else to share the screen from this menu):

The drive in question is an SSD thats inside the machine, labelled storage (sda). It's got no valuable data on it.

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Output of lsblk:
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Output of fdisk -l:
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I have tried searching for a solution to this but with no luck.
Is anyone able to kindly assist?
 
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And for the future...if you care about your data and you don't want to corrupt your filesystems on a power outage, get a UPS so your server can do a graceful shutdown while running for a few minutes on battery.
 
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Thanks for your feedback and assistance.

Landed up having to solve multiple issues so I did land up learning quite a bit!
Realised that my backsups were good and I what I should do going forward.

Once again, thanks for taking the time to reply and assist me.