Problem with upgrade to Fedora 42 | missing zenpower3 module

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First time doing a Fedora upgrade. From F41 to F42. Used Discover. Everything seemed to go fine, no errors. Gave me the prompt to reboot, did so and it went through the install process with no errors.

Upon next reboot tried to boot into the newly installed 6.14 kernel for F42 and was greeted with an initramfs error screen. Booting into the previous 6.13.11 kernel works fine and the upgrade to F42 seemed to take hold. Nothing weird except Discover not recognizing my already installed packages, but everything seems to work.

How do I fix this? Or should I just ignore it and hope further updates “fix” it?

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Managed to fix it, I think/hope. Had to completely remove the kernel and install it again (simply reinstalling did not work).

sudo dnf list --installed | grep kernel
sudo dnf remove kernel-core-0:6.14.2-300.fc42.x86_64

First command is to list installed kernels. Second removes the kernel-core package and dependencies (6.14.2).

I think the issue was with the zenpower3 module that I am using. Probably caused the kernel to not install properly during the update to F42 (even though no error was shown during the update process). Removing the kernel also removed the zenpower3 module which I had to reinstall after I confirmed the new kernel was working fine.

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