diff --git a/cluster/gce/util.sh b/cluster/gce/util.sh
index d1afca171b6..80cf1b2748e 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/util.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/util.sh
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ function construct-linux-kubelet-flags {
   # Keep in sync with the mkdir command in configure-helper.sh (until the TODO is resolved)
   flags+=" --cert-dir=/var/lib/kubelet/pki/"
 
-  # If ENABLE_AUTH_PROVIDER_GCP is set to true, kubelet is enabled to use out-of-tree auth 
+  # If ENABLE_AUTH_PROVIDER_GCP is set to true, kubelet is enabled to use out-of-tree auth
   # credential provider instead of in-tree auth credential provider.
   # https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/kubelet-credential-provider/kubelet-credential-provider
   if [[ "${ENABLE_AUTH_PROVIDER_GCP:-true}" == "true" ]]; then
diff --git a/test/e2e/testing-manifests/scheduling/nvidia-driver-installer.yaml b/test/e2e/testing-manifests/scheduling/nvidia-driver-installer.yaml
index f8d3a723ec4..c23670087c3 100644
--- a/test/e2e/testing-manifests/scheduling/nvidia-driver-installer.yaml
+++ b/test/e2e/testing-manifests/scheduling/nvidia-driver-installer.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # This DaemonSet was originally referenced from
-# https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/container-engine-accelerators/blob/master/daemonset.yaml
+# https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/container-engine-accelerators/blob/master/nvidia-driver-installer/cos/daemonset-preloaded.yaml
 
 # The Dockerfile and other source for this daemonset are in
 # https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cos-gpu-installer
@@ -47,17 +47,43 @@ spec:
       - name: root-mount
         hostPath:
           path: /
+      - name: cos-tools
+        hostPath:
+          path: /var/lib/cos-tools
+      - name: nvidia-config
+        hostPath:
+          path: /etc/nvidia
       initContainers:
+      - image: "ubuntu@sha256:3f85b7caad41a95462cf5b787d8a04604c8262cdcdf9a472b8c52ef83375fe15"
+        name: bind-mount-install-dir
+        securityContext:
+          privileged: true
+        command:
+        - nsenter
+        - -at
+        - '1'
+        - --
+        - sh
+        - -c
+        - |
+          if mountpoint -q /var/lib/nvidia; then
+            echo "The mountpoint /var/lib/nvidia exists."
+          else
+            echo "The mountpoint /var/lib/nvidia does not exist. Creating directories /home/kubernetes/bin/nvidia and /var/lib/nvidia and bind mount."
+            mkdir -p /var/lib/nvidia /home/kubernetes/bin/nvidia
+            mount --bind /home/kubernetes/bin/nvidia /var/lib/nvidia
+            echo "Done creating bind mounts"
+          fi
         # The COS GPU installer image version may be dependent on the version of COS being used.
         # Refer to details about the installer in https://cos.googlesource.com/cos/tools/+/refs/heads/master/src/cmd/cos_gpu_installer/
         # and the COS release notes (https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/release-notes) to determine version COS GPU installer for a given version of COS.
 
         # Maps to gcr.io/cos-cloud/cos-gpu-installer:v2.1.10 - suitable for COS M109 as per https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/release-notes
-      - image: gcr.io/cos-cloud/cos-gpu-installer:v2.1.10
+      - image: "gcr.io/cos-cloud/cos-gpu-installer:v2.1.10"
         name: nvidia-driver-installer
         resources:
           requests:
-            cpu: 0.15
+            cpu: 150m
         securityContext:
           privileged: true
         env:
@@ -71,6 +97,10 @@ spec:
             value: /etc/vulkan/icd.d
           - name: ROOT_MOUNT_DIR
             value: /root
+          - name: COS_TOOLS_DIR_HOST
+            value: /var/lib/cos-tools
+          - name: COS_TOOLS_DIR_CONTAINER
+            value: /build/cos-tools
         volumeMounts:
         - name: nvidia-install-dir-host
           mountPath: /usr/local/nvidia
@@ -80,6 +110,37 @@ spec:
           mountPath: /dev
         - name: root-mount
           mountPath: /root
+        - name: cos-tools
+          mountPath: /build/cos-tools
+        command:
+        - bash
+        - -c
+        - |
+          echo "Checking for existing GPU driver modules"
+          if lsmod | grep nvidia; then
+            echo "GPU driver is already installed, the installed version may or may not be the driver version being tried to install, skipping installation"
+            exit 0
+          else
+            echo "No GPU driver module detected, installing now"
+            /cos-gpu-installer install
+          fi
+      - image: "gcr.io/gke-release/nvidia-partition-gpu@sha256:e226275da6c45816959fe43cde907ee9a85c6a2aa8a429418a4cadef8ecdb86a"
+        name: partition-gpus
+        env:
+          - name: LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+            value: /usr/local/nvidia/lib64
+        resources:
+          requests:
+            cpu: 150m
+        securityContext:
+          privileged: true
+        volumeMounts:
+        - name: nvidia-install-dir-host
+          mountPath: /usr/local/nvidia
+        - name: dev
+          mountPath: /dev
+        - name: nvidia-config
+          mountPath: /etc/nvidia
       containers:
       - image: "registry.k8s.io/pause:3.10"
         name: pause