Comment # 29 on bug 1224773 from Stefan Dirsch

(In reply to Imo Hester from comment #26)
> (In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #25)
> > Thanks for figuring this out, Imo! So it seems 
> > 
> >   transactional-update initrd
> > 
> > doesn't work in a consistent way, at least not together with systemd-boot.
> > Ignaz will look into this.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if we're seing two separate issues here. Could you check once
> > more by re-installing the KMP if transactional-update initrd is being
> > running during that installation (it should!)? I need to know if the initrd
> > is just being installed to the wrong location or systemd-boot configuration
> > not adjusted correctly respectively. Or if no initrd is being re-created at
> > all during KMP installation.
> 
> Hey there. I am not entirely sure how to test this so here is what I did:
> 
> 1) sudo transactional-update pkg rm nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default
> (This removed also *-compute-G06, *-video-G06, *-util-G06, *-gl-G06
> 2) sudo reboot
> 3) sudo transactional-update pkg in nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default
> 4) sudo reboot
> 5) cd /boot
> 6) ll
> > total 88476
> > drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root    65536 Jan  1  1970 efi
> > -rw-------. 1 root root 90530598 Jun  2 07:53 initrd-6.9.1-1-default
> 
> As you can see the initrd-6.9.1-1-default is still the one from yesterday
> which I manually generated using transactional-update initrd
> 
> Also
> 
> 7) cd /boot/efi/opensuse-aeon/6.9.1-1-default
> 8) ll
> > total 277568
> > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 178947935 Mai 25 10:22 initrd-4c6dba516f5f3d230a1f5f1e144106e46c960602
> > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  90530598 Jun  2 07:58 initrd-6.9.1-1-default
> > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  14641520 Mai 17 13:59 linux-6b13316fa0178df1fd6898c8f96f96ab9ecbbbe1
> 
> does not reveal any new initramfs files.
> 
> I suppose transactional-update initrd is not being executed or the initramfs
> is stored to an entirely different location I did not yet found.
> 
> Does this help?

Yes, definitely! Thanks, this shows that we have two separate issues here.

1. transactional-update initrd is not being executed when installing a KMP 
2. transactional-update initrd doesn't work together with systemd-boot