diff --git a/slices/systemd.yaml b/slices/systemd.yaml
index 3bb7b69d5..5796aad36 100644
--- a/slices/systemd.yaml
+++ b/slices/systemd.yaml
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ slices:
       - mount_bins
       - systemd_libs
       - systemd_config
+      - systemd_generated-config
     contents:
       /usr/bin/busctl:
       /usr/bin/hostnamectl:
@@ -534,73 +535,20 @@ slices:
       /etc/systemd/user.conf:
       /etc/xdg/systemd/user:
 
-  # generated config slice is to emulate symlinks or initial state
-  # config generated by systemd upon install
+  # Generated config slice is to emulate symlinks or initial state
+  # config generated by systemd upon install.
+  # Systemd performs a lot of initialization upon install, however since systemd
+  # does actually not rely on these install actions (since all of these are run as
+  # a part of the first install / early setup upon first boot), a lot of this is
+  # left out. It's done like that because systemd needs to be usable after install
+  # on a running system, but this is not the case here.
+  # These are the few that seems to be not emulated
   generated-config:
     contents:
       /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service}
       /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-fs.target: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/remote-fs.target}
       /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-pstore.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pstore.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-pcrlock-machine-id.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pcrlock-machine-id.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/systemd-sysupdate-reboot.timer: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-sysupdate-reboot.timer}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-confext.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-confext.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-sysext.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-sysext.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-veritysetup.target: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/remote-veritysetup.target}
-      /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/systemd-networkd.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/systemd-networkd.socket: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.socket}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-network-generator.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-network-generator.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/network-online.target.wants/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/systemd-journald-audit.socket: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald-audit.socket}
-      /etc/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service.wants/systemd-journald-audit.socket: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald-audit.socket}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-pcrlock-firmware-code.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pcrlock-firmware-code.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-pcrlock-firmware-config.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pcrlock-firmware-config.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/systemd-pcrextend.socket: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pcrextend.socket}
-      /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-cryptsetup.target: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/remote-cryptsetup.target}
-      /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/systemd-sysupdate.timer: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-sysupdate.timer}
-      /etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/systemd-sysext.socket: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-sysext.socket}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-pcrlock-secureboot-policy.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pcrlock-secureboot-policy.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-pcrlock-make-policy.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pcrlock-make-policy.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-pcrlock-file-system.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pcrlock-file-system.service}
-      /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-pcrlock-secureboot-authority.service: {symlink: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pcrlock-secureboot-authority.service}
       /var/log/journal/: {make: true}
-      /var/lib/systemd/catalog/database: {mutable: true}
-    mutate: |
-      catalog_files = content.list("/usr/lib/systemd/catalog/")
-      catalog_map = {}
-      for cf in catalog_files:
-        # determine language from the file name
-        nt = cf.split(".")
-        lang = ""
-        if len(nt) > 2:
-          lang = nt[1]
-        
-        # now read the contents and start to parse for language
-        catalog = content.read(cf)
-        lines = catalog.splitlines()
-        payload = ""
-        found_id = False
-        for li in lines:
-          if li.startswith("#"):
-            continue
-          if li.startswith("-- ") and len(li) >= 35:
-            nli = cf.split()
-            id = nli[1]
-            if found_id:
-              catalog_map[id+lang] = payload
-              payload = ""
-            if len(nli) == 3 and lang == "":
-              lang = nli[2]
-            found_id = True
-            continue
-          if not found_id:
-            continue
-          payload += li + "\n"
-          
-
-
-
 
   dbus-config:
     contents: