System fails to boot in Grub with multipath with different errors (mod not found , uncompression error, ELF magic ...)

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On a system with boot intalled on a multipath device, the system fails to boot with errors like:

    error: invalid arch-independant ELF magic.
    
    Press any key to continue...
    Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
    
    uncompression error
    

    or

    error: file '/grub2/i386-pc/bo?[^_]?U????V??St!???@H.mod' not found  
            Entering rescue mode...
            grub rescue>
    

    or any other grub module not found.

  • Some messages can also be seen on the booted system kernel in rescue:

        kernel: scsi host1: hdr status = FCPIO_DATA_CNT_MISMATCH
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7+
  • multipath
  • grub2

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