diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 900ecf4f..1c76199b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 livecd-rootfs (2.407) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
+  [ Colin Watson ]
   * Add a basic build-time syntax check for live-build/auto/*.
 
- -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:22:50 +0100
+  [ Oliver Grawert ]
+  * add multiverse to sources.list for snappy kernel builds
+
+ -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:53:12 +0200
 
 livecd-rootfs (2.406) xenial; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/live-build/auto/config b/live-build/auto/config
index 27c8015a..c1e9d016 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/config
+++ b/live-build/auto/config
@@ -407,8 +407,8 @@ case $PROJECT in
 			# contains the framework definition
 			add_package install ubuntu-core-libs
 
-			# universe needed for 'system-image-cli'
-			COMPONENTS='main restricted universe'
+			# universe needed for 'system-image-cli' and multiverse for firmware
+			COMPONENTS='main restricted universe multiverse'
 		fi
 		OPTS="${OPTS:+$OPTS }--bootstrap-flavour=minimal"
 		;;