grub rescue error: symbol 'grub_strchrnul' not found

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I was testing another distro and deleted it but forgot to re-install grub into the main drive with Centos 7. Now when booting the system it takes me to grub rescue since mbr is trying to boot from the deleted partition.

I set the root, prefix correctly, however, when running insmod normal or insmod linux i get this error message:

error: symbol 'grub_strchrnul' not found.

i can insert some other modules with no issue such as (reboot, hello, cat)

Currently I have no bootable CD or flash and trying to fix this from with in the grub rescue, is it possible and how?

nempyxa · Answer

I had same issue after try to update grub config for this OS.

Please try to replace content of /boot/grub2/i386-pc/ folder from another instance of installed Centos 7 or bootable media. 
I had boot from recovery boot CD and have copied this folder from another Centos 7 server over network.

Also I suggest create backup copy of /boot/grub2/ folder to to facilitate recovery in the future, e.g. /boot/grub2bak/.

grub rescue error: symbol 'grub_strchrnul' not found

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