diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7dcdac11..24ccc3de 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.393) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * actually make the /etc/mtab link relative (LP: #1547033)
+
+ -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:27:01 +0100
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.392) xenial; urgency=medium
 
   * move mtab link to point to /proc/self/mounts instead of /proc/mounts
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/20-extra-files.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/20-extra-files.chroot
index 10ffa010..4d692c36 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/20-extra-files.chroot
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/20-extra-files.chroot
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 set -e
 
 echo "creating mtab and modules dir" >&2
-ln -sf /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab
+ln -sf ../proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab
 mkdir -p /lib/modules
 mkdir -p /lib/firmware
 mkdir -p /writable