/boot/writable/firstboot_happened not created after Ignition/Combustion finished

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I checked the source code of both the CoreOS upstream project on GitHub and the openSUSE additions on build.opensuse.org. I haven’t seen anything about a /boot/writable/firstboot_happened, maybe this is not implemented yet?

Based on the Ignition upstream code I did find a way to force Ignition to run again, but it’s not pretty.

  • In /etc/default/grub, add ignition.firstboot=1 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
  • Run sudo transactional-update grub.cfg
  • Reboot

However, this boot flag is persistent, it’s not cleaned up. But it’s better than re-image an SD card every time. This will help me test some stuff.

I’ll create a openSUSE Bugzilla issue later this week.