I upgraded my OpenSuSE 42.3 machine to OpenSuSE 15.0 today and it's
resulted in a broken grub that's exhibiting behavior that I don't
understand. I'm trying to recover.
What happens is this:
Following a reboot, grub displays the boot menu like normal. If I press
<enter> to select the default entry (or let it time-out and
auto-select), I see a brief message about loading initrd and then
suddenly I go back to the grub menu. This time, if I press <enter> on
any entry, I get errors like "error: can't find command insmod" or
"error: can't find command linux" or "error: can't find command echo".
These errors appear to correspond to the commands in the default
menuentry stanza.
If after a reboot I instead cursor to any other menu item (eg. don't
just press <enter>), I'm immediately greeted by these "error: can't find
command xxxxxx" errors.
If I enter a grub command line, and press <tab>, I see that the only
available commands are: ".", "[", "acpi", "all_functional_test",
"authenticate", "background_color", and "backtrace". Nothing else.
With only these commands to work with, I don't think there's much that I
can do from the command line to boot my kernel.
I've tried re-running grub-install from a rescue image to no avail. The
behavior remains.
Any clues what might cause grub to behave like this and how to recover?
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