diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/03-boot_with_systemd.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/03-boot_with_systemd.chroot
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..d8f4c7db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/03-boot_with_systemd.chroot
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh -x
+
+# Boot using systemd and disable quiet boot
+# to see what is happening.
+systemd=/lib/systemd/systemd
+sed \
+    -e 's,^\([ 	]*GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX\)=""$,\1="init=$systemd",g' \
+    -e 's,^\([ 	]*GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT\)="quiet splash",\1="",g' \
+    /etc/default/grub
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/04-configure_network.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/04-configure_network.chroot
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index 00000000..56440fc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/04-configure_network.chroot
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh -x
+
+if=eth0
+
+# Manually configure the first ethernet device
+cat <<EOT |tee -a /etc/network/interfaces
+auto $if
+iface $if inet dhcp
+EOT
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/99-remove-documentation.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/99-remove-documentation.chroot
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index 593d8a87..00000000
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/99-remove-documentation.chroot
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# remove-documentation: Remove unnecessary documentation to reduce disk usage
-#
-# Author: Alex Chiang <achiang@canonical.com>
-# Date  : November 9, 2010
-
-echo "Removing documentation..."
-find /usr/share/doc -depth -type f ! -name copyright|xargs rm || true
-find /usr/share/doc -empty|xargs rmdir || true
-rm -rf /usr/share/man /usr/share/groff /usr/share/info /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/linda /var/cache/man