Updated openSUSE emergency mode exit shell error

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Hi there!

I have been using Ubuntu 22.04 for a long time and I’ve decided to move to openSUSE leap. I used a sansdisk USB flash drive that I have bought from westerndigital. Using etcher, I was able to install the offline iso onto the USB. I restarted it and it took me to the opensuse leap grub menu/boot menu. I clicked on the installation option but it just gives me a looping reset system/restart system text on the left side of my laptop. So I went with the boot menu option and used opensuse-secure boot instead. It worked perfectly and i had no problems. I got the update notification and I restarted my computer. Opening my computer back up, I get a long Acer loading screen and this:

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I need to use this laptop tomorrow for online learning. Any help is very much appreciated and if needed, my computer is a Intel core i3 aspire 3 laptop. Thank you!

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This smells like the installer failed to include nvme module(s) required to read the disk on which Leap was installed. You can try booting installed media from the installation menu to get you by until you can rebuild the initrd to include the required module. It may be that the required module wasn’t provided on the installation media and needs to be acquired by updating the installed system. I would boot installation media into rescue mode, chroot into the installed system, then update:

sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper up

Zypper up will install a newer kernel, which should provide the needed module in the initrd so normal booting can begin. If you have any trouble accessing the installed media via rescue boot, try:

sudo modprobe nvme
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Welcome on the forum!

What kind of PC/laptop is this? If Ubuntu is running, the output of “inxi -oludP -v1” would be helpful.

It looks to me there is confusion on your drives, anything special?

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For rescue mode, I had to put in a rescue login. I’m guessing that I have to run as root and then update?

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Ubuntu is not running and it just gives me a grub error (minimal bash like line editing is supported)

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If by “put in a rescue login” you mean simply login as root user, then yes.

“it” what?

If Ubuntu is bootable, you could boot it instead of rescue media for the purpose of chrooting to update. But, if you can boot Leap via any alternate Grub menu stanza, it would simplify getting updated with new kernel. Which Leap kernel is currently installed? 5.14.21-150500.53.2 should have come from the offline installation. 5.14.21-150500.55.19.1 is currently the latest good kernel.

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Thanks for the feedback on Ubuntu? What about my two other questions?

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Aspire A317-53 V1.26, hoping this what you were looking for

Yes, 5.14.21-150500.53-default

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Self had problem when rebooted after did an upgrade to ubuntu 20.04 .

Self failed to recall that Ubuntu had blocked os-prober which certainly kept me searching…

So for others:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1410…s-isnt-showing

My thanks to ArrayBolt3 on askubuntu for this information

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Thanks for the output of lsblk, please next time include the command producing the output, now I had to try some things before finding out it was lsblk.

I am not knowledgeable on BTRFS but it looks to me you install in BTRFS on nvme0n1p3.

As to why things are not working, I think it is what @mrmazda was writing:

I would redo the installation and get /boot and /boot/efi on sda using the Expert Partitioner.

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Thanks, I’ll try redoing the installation. I do apologize for all the hassle