Hi everyone,
the Grub boot menu doesn’t show all available snapshots any more. There’s always only one entry.
I don’t know when this started but it was not an issue right away after the installation of TW back in April.
Maybe there where changes within the snapper system which I’m not aware of, so I apologize in advance if this is a misunderstanding on my side. Couldn’t find anything helpful in the forums to clarify this.
‘snapper list’ shows 20+ entries
Grub menu has only the following entries:
opensuse Tumbleweed 20260519
EFI Default Loader
Reboot Into Firmware Interface
# │ Typ │ Vorher # │ Datum │ Benutzer │ Verwendeter Platz │ Bereinigen │ Beschreibung │ Benutzerdaten
─────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────
0 │ single │ │ │ root │ │ │ current │
1* │ single │ │ Di 14 Apr 2026 00:04:11 CEST │ root │ 17,39 MiB │ │ first root filesystem │
141 │ pre │ │ Sa 04 Jul 2026 16:51:32 CEST │ root │ 968,00 KiB │ number │ yast snapper │
147 │ post │ 141 │ Sa 04 Jul 2026 17:05:01 CEST │ root │ 968,00 KiB │ │ Test │
151 │ pre │ │ Sa 04 Jul 2026 20:41:21 CEST │ root │ 22,04 MiB │ number │ zypp(zypper) │ important=yes
152 │ post │ 151 │ Sa 04 Jul 2026 20:41:44 CEST │ root │ 5,60 MiB │ number │ │ important=yes
153 │ pre │ │ Mi 08 Jul 2026 16:30:21 CEST │ root │ 60,19 MiB │ number │ zypp(myrlyn) │ important=yes
154 │ post │ 153 │ Mi 08 Jul 2026 17:02:39 CEST │ root │ 71,12 MiB │ number │ │ important=yes
157 │ pre │ │ Mo 20 Jul 2026 15:39:24 CEST │ root │ 255,78 MiB │ number │ zypp(myrlyn) │ important=yes
158 │ post │ 157 │ Mo 20 Jul 2026 15:51:13 CEST │ root │ 61,95 MiB │ number │ │ important=yes
169 │ pre │ │ Do 20 Aug 2026 18:06:11 CEST │ root │ 203,99 MiB │ number │ zypp(myrlyn) │ important=yes
170 │ post │ 169 │ Do 20 Aug 2026 18:53:32 CEST │ root │ 9,92 MiB │ number │ │ important=yes
171 │ pre │ │ Fr 21 Aug 2026 01:18:40 CEST │ root │ 512,00 KiB │ number │ zypp(zypper) │ important=yes
172 │ post │ 171 │ Fr 21 Aug 2026 01:18:59 CEST │ root │ 98,06 MiB │ number │ │ important=yes
178 │ pre │ │ Sa 22 Aug 2026 16:59:40 CEST │ root │ 252,75 MiB │ number │ zypp(myrlyn) │ important=no
179 │ post │ 178 │ Sa 22 Aug 2026 17:00:33 CEST │ root │ 832,00 KiB │ number │ │ important=no
180 │ pre │ │ Sa 22 Aug 2026 19:47:29 CEST │ root │ 448,00 KiB │ number │ zypp(myrlyn) │ important=no
181 │ post │ 180 │ Sa 22 Aug 2026 19:47:53 CEST │ root │ 736,00 KiB │ number │ │ important=no
185 │ pre │ │ So 23 Aug 2026 18:54:41 CEST │ root │ 1,02 MiB │ number │ yast snapper │
186 │ post │ 185 │ So 23 Aug 2026 19:13:22 CEST │ root │ 788,00 KiB │ number │ │
189 │ pre │ │ So 23 Aug 2026 20:52:08 CEST │ root │ 5,04 MiB │ number │ yast partitioner │
190 │ post │ 189 │ So 23 Aug 2026 21:44:36 CEST │ root │ 688,00 KiB │ number │ │
191 │ pre │ │ So 23 Aug 2026 21:44:51 CEST │ root │ 32,00 KiB │ number │ yast snapper │
192 │ post │ 191 │ So 23 Aug 2026 21:46:48 CEST │ root │ 96,00 KiB │ number │ │
I just checked the USB setup stick I used back in April - systemd boot seems to be the default option for TW now. I didn’t notice this back then (or at least I don’t remember noticing this) and therefore thought it would be Grub. Sorry for the confusion.
add-all-kernels [SNAPSHOT]
Create boot entries for all kernels in SNAPSHOT
update-all-entries [SNAPSHOT]
Update "options" field from /etc/kernel/cmdline
for all entries
@knurpht@Shortwave8115
I found the answer to my problem thanks to the suggestions you both made here.
After sudo update-bootloader --reinit didn’t change anything, I checked out the sdbootutil documentation regarding snapshots and I stumbled upon some infos about the boot configuration for systemd.
Long story short: the efi partition was too small. I was able to safely expand it and now the boot loader has several snapshots listed, all with current times and dates.
Thank you for putting me on the right track, I’m really glad that everything seems to be working again.