diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5f8c9fe5..7fbd53c9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.203) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add hostname and machine-info to the writable paths, so that hostnamectl
+    can change them to create a sane default bluetooth device name.
+
+ -- Chris Wayne <chris.wayne@canonical.com>  Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:25:29 +0100
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.202) trusty; urgency=medium
 
   * Add the minimal task to ubuntu-core to preserve brand consistency.
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/03-etc-writable.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/03-etc-writable.chroot
index 4fc2c6dc..c58b4bdd 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/03-etc-writable.chroot
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/03-etc-writable.chroot
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ set -e
 set -x
 
 mkdir -p /etc/writable
+touch /etc/writable/machine-info
 
-for f in timezone localtime; do
+for f in timezone localtime machine-info hostname; do
     if [ -e /etc/$f ]; then
         echo "I: Moving /etc/$f to /etc/writable/"
         mv /etc/$f /etc/writable/$f