May I ask why this was marked invalid? Perhaps the focus on the ttyS0
missing spam distracts from the fact that there is no way to actually
*use* the recover *desktop*? All I get is a TTY login prompt and,
according to @ogra, that isn't even supposed to let me login.[1]

And I do have an actual need to recover from inadvertently running
`update-grub` because of a careless `sudo apt reinstall memtest86+`
after a cursory `debsums` sweep flagged it for missing files.[2] The
need isn't all that pressing because it happened in a VM which I had set
up for evaluation. But if such an error is truly unrecoverable, with the
only recourse being to reinstall from scratch, it really puts a dent in
my expectations. Usually grub.cfg error are trivial to fix, no matter
the cause.

While it's not the end of the world, reinstalling seems to be a heavy
price to pay. Imagine what happens when people are traveling abroad.
Laptop inoperable, no way to backup the most recent data, no easy way to
get a live USB *and* they might have thought the same thing as me,
initially: there's always the recovery desktop, right? Plus, one starts
with a clean slate and has to do all the customization and software
installations again. That really hurts when the aim is to install once
and upgrade forever. :(

[1] 
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/only-memtest-and-uefi-settings-in-grub-menu/84952/10?u=peterwhite23
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/2157702/comments/7

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  The three Ubuntu 26.04 repair modes from Grub are unusable

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