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I'd just like to reiterate that I appreciate your help. Neither grep command printed anything and the mokutil command gave an error (also it only had one option when I hit tab twice as you instructed, thank you for the detailed instructions though)
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Now that you mention it I do recall the computer booting into some weird screen before grub but I just let it time out because I didn't know what it was. Sometimes when I uninstall and reinstall the drivers it does that screen again (shim?) but of course now that I want it to show up I can't reproduce it lol.
Yeah, the weird confusing screen at boot that's easy to miss and difficult to bring back must have been the one about key enrolment. Memories lol. Sadly I'm not fluent in dealing with secure boot. So when you've exhausted what the SUSE wiki suggests, try googling the error messages ('Failed to access kernel trusted keyring: Required key not available' and 'Failed to get root password hash') and play around with mokutil to see if you can solve your problem. Or ask in the OpenSUSE IRC channel, e.g. going to the Libera Web client and entering the channel name opensuse (ideally link to this thread when asking there).
Thanks again for your help! I tried rolling back again and redoing it a 4th time to get the mokutility screen to pull up again but it didn't 🙃 So I rolled back yet again because I'm tired of fucking with it today. I will definitely be heading to that IRC channel when I go to reattempt next time though.
Cool, you're welcome! Also, by now the problem regarding key enrolment is more a general Linux/Secureboot problem, so you could also ask it in more general Linux forums/channels. When you find a solution, please let me know about it (ideally right here), since that would interest me too. :)