diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/app-render.tsx b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/app-render.tsx
index cddec860eab1e..bd25eb2a5f83a 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/app-render.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/app-render.tsx
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ import { appendMutableCookies } from '../web/spec-extension/adapters/request-coo
 import { ComponentsType } from '../../build/webpack/loaders/next-app-loader'
 import { ModuleReference } from '../../build/webpack/loaders/metadata/types'
 import { createServerInsertedHTML } from './server-inserted-html'
+import { getRequiredScripts } from './required-scripts'
 
 export type GetDynamicParamFromSegment = (
   // [slug] / [[slug]] / [...slug]
@@ -1387,11 +1388,15 @@ export async function renderToHTMLOrFlight(
      * A new React Component that renders the provided React Component
      * using Flight which can then be rendered to HTML.
      */
-    const createServerComponentsRenderer = (loaderTreeToRender: LoaderTree) =>
+    const createServerComponentsRenderer = (
+      loaderTreeToRender: LoaderTree,
+      preinitScripts: () => void
+    ) =>
       createServerComponentRenderer<{
         asNotFound: boolean
       }>(
         async (props) => {
+          preinitScripts()
           // Create full component tree from root to leaf.
           const injectedCSS = new Set<string>()
           const injectedFontPreloadTags = new Set<string>()
@@ -1490,7 +1495,16 @@ export async function renderToHTMLOrFlight(
             integrity: subresourceIntegrityManifest?.[polyfill],
           }))
 
-        const ServerComponentsRenderer = createServerComponentsRenderer(tree)
+        const [preinitScripts, bootstrapScript] = getRequiredScripts(
+          buildManifest,
+          assetPrefix,
+          subresourceIntegrityManifest,
+          getAssetQueryString(true)
+        )
+        const ServerComponentsRenderer = createServerComponentsRenderer(
+          tree,
+          preinitScripts
+        )
         const content = (
           <HeadManagerContext.Provider
             value={{
@@ -1576,28 +1590,7 @@ export async function renderToHTMLOrFlight(
               onError: htmlRendererErrorHandler,
               nonce,
               // Include hydration scripts in the HTML
-              bootstrapScripts: [
-                ...(subresourceIntegrityManifest
-                  ? buildManifest.rootMainFiles.map((src) => ({
-                      src:
-                        `${assetPrefix}/_next/` +
-                        src +
-                        // Always include the timestamp query in development
-                        // as Safari caches them during the same session, no
-                        // matter what cache headers are set.
-                        getAssetQueryString(true),
-                      integrity: subresourceIntegrityManifest[src],
-                    }))
-                  : buildManifest.rootMainFiles.map(
-                      (src) =>
-                        `${assetPrefix}/_next/` +
-                        src +
-                        // Always include the timestamp query in development
-                        // as Safari caches them during the same session, no
-                        // matter what cache headers are set.
-                        getAssetQueryString(true)
-                    )),
-              ],
+              bootstrapScripts: [bootstrapScript],
             },
           })
 
@@ -1680,8 +1673,18 @@ export async function renderToHTMLOrFlight(
               )}
             </>
           )
+
+          const [errorPreinitScripts, errorBootstrapScript] =
+            getRequiredScripts(
+              buildManifest,
+              assetPrefix,
+              subresourceIntegrityManifest,
+              getAssetQueryString(false)
+            )
+
           const ErrorPage = createServerComponentRenderer(
             async () => {
+              errorPreinitScripts()
               const [MetadataTree, MetadataOutlet] = createMetadataComponents({
                 tree, // still use original tree with not-found boundaries to extract metadata
                 pathname,
@@ -1762,20 +1765,7 @@ export async function renderToHTMLOrFlight(
               streamOptions: {
                 nonce,
                 // Include hydration scripts in the HTML
-                bootstrapScripts: subresourceIntegrityManifest
-                  ? buildManifest.rootMainFiles.map((src) => ({
-                      src:
-                        `${assetPrefix}/_next/` +
-                        src +
-                        getAssetQueryString(false),
-                      integrity: subresourceIntegrityManifest[src],
-                    }))
-                  : buildManifest.rootMainFiles.map(
-                      (src) =>
-                        `${assetPrefix}/_next/` +
-                        src +
-                        getAssetQueryString(false)
-                    ),
+                bootstrapScripts: [errorBootstrapScript],
               },
             })
 
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/required-scripts.tsx b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/required-scripts.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8faa76b060a33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/required-scripts.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import type { BuildManifest } from '../get-page-files'
+
+import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
+
+export function getRequiredScripts(
+  buildManifest: BuildManifest,
+  assetPrefix: string,
+  SRIManifest: undefined | Record<string, string>,
+  qs: string
+): [() => void, string | { src: string; integrity: string }] {
+  let preinitScripts: () => void
+  let preinitScriptCommands: string[] = []
+  let bootstrapScript: string | { src: string; integrity: string } = ''
+  const files = buildManifest.rootMainFiles
+  if (files.length === 0) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'Invariant: missing bootstrap script. This is a bug in Next.js'
+    )
+  }
+  if (SRIManifest) {
+    bootstrapScript = {
+      src: `${assetPrefix}/_next/` + files[0] + qs,
+      integrity: SRIManifest[files[0]],
+    }
+    for (let i = 1; i < files.length; i++) {
+      const src = `${assetPrefix}/_next/` + files[i] + qs
+      const integrity = SRIManifest[files[i]]
+      preinitScriptCommands.push(src, integrity)
+    }
+    preinitScripts = () => {
+      // preinitScriptCommands is a double indexed array of src/integrity pairs
+      for (let i = 0; i < preinitScriptCommands.length; i += 2) {
+        ReactDOM.preinit(preinitScriptCommands[i], {
+          as: 'script',
+          integrity: preinitScriptCommands[i + 1],
+        })
+      }
+    }
+  } else {
+    bootstrapScript = `${assetPrefix}/_next/` + files[0] + qs
+    for (let i = 1; i < files.length; i++) {
+      const src = `${assetPrefix}/_next/` + files[i] + qs
+      preinitScriptCommands.push(src)
+    }
+    preinitScripts = () => {
+      // preinitScriptCommands is a singled indexed array of src values
+      for (let i = 0; i < preinitScriptCommands.length; i++) {
+        ReactDOM.preinit(preinitScriptCommands[i], {
+          as: 'script',
+        })
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return [preinitScripts, bootstrapScript]
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/app/app/bootstrap/page.js b/test/e2e/app-dir/app/app/bootstrap/page.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d83b335ed8698
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/app/app/bootstrap/page.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+export default async function Page() {
+  return (
+    <div>
+      This fixture is to assert where the bootstrap scripts and other required
+      scripts emit during SSR
+    </div>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/app/index.test.ts b/test/e2e/app-dir/app/index.test.ts
index 66e77aad46ff6..735656550c9f7 100644
--- a/test/e2e/app-dir/app/index.test.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/app/index.test.ts
@@ -1859,5 +1859,16 @@ createNextDescribe(
         expect(await browser.elementByCss('p').text()).toBe('item count 128000')
       })
     })
+
+    describe('bootstrap scripts', () => {
+      it('should only bootstrap with one script, prinitializing the rest', async () => {
+        const html = await next.render('/bootstrap')
+        const $ = cheerio.load(html)
+
+        // We assume a minimum of 2 scripts, webpack runtime + main-app
+        expect($('script[async]').length).toBeGreaterThan(1)
+        expect($('body').find('script[async]').length).toBe(1)
+      })
+    })
   }
 )