diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/03-kernel-metapkg.chroot_early b/live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/03-kernel-metapkg.chroot_early
index e8e3a796..df94a734 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/03-kernel-metapkg.chroot_early
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/03-kernel-metapkg.chroot_early
@@ -6,54 +6,12 @@ case $PASS in
         exit 0
         ;;
     ubuntu-server-minimal.ubuntu-server.installer.*)
-        flavor=${PASS##*.}
-        if [ "$flavor" = "generic" ]; then
-            kernel_metapkg=linux-generic
-        elif [ "$flavor" = "generic-hwe" ]; then
-            kernel_metapkg=linux-generic-hwe-$(lsb_release -sr)
-        elif [ "$flavor" = "generic-64k" ]; then
-            kernel_metapkg=linux-generic-64k
-        elif [ "$flavor" = "generic-64k-hwe" ]; then
-            kernel_metapkg=linux-generic-64k-hwe-$(lsb_release -sr)
-        elif [ "$flavor" = "intel-iotg" ]; then
-            kernel_metapkg=linux-intel-iotg
-        elif [ "$flavor" = "nvidia-tegra" ]; then
-            kernel_metapkg=linux-nvidia-tegra
-        elif [ "$flavor" = "nvidia-tegra-igx" ]; then
-            kernel_metapkg=linux-nvidia-tegra-igx
-        else
-            echo "bogus flavor: $flavor"
-            exit 1
-        fi
         ;;
     *)
         exit 0
         ;;
 esac
 
-# Add a script to record which kernel meta-package to use and to set
-# up the /media/filesystem mount that subiquity currently depends
-# on. It would be cleaner to do this mount in a systemd mount unit but
-# that doesn't work because we mask the cdrom mount to avoid strange
-# issues with the handover from the initrd to systemd in the live
-# session. In any case, subiquity will sooner or later not require
-# this mount to be here at all and then we can delete these mount commands.
-
-cat <<EOF > /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/live-server
-#!/bin/sh
-case \$1 in
-prereqs) exit 0;;
-esac
-
-echo ${kernel_metapkg} > /run/kernel-meta-package
-
-mkdir -p \${rootmnt}/media/filesystem \${rootmnt}/media/full \${rootmnt}/media/minimal
-mount -o ro -t squashfs \${rootmnt}/cdrom/casper/ubuntu-server-minimal.squashfs \${rootmnt}/media/minimal
-mount -o ro -t squashfs \${rootmnt}/cdrom/casper/ubuntu-server-minimal.ubuntu-server.squashfs \${rootmnt}/media/full
-mount -o ro,lowerdir=\${rootmnt}/media/full:\${rootmnt}/media/minimal -t overlay overlay \${rootmnt}/media/filesystem
-EOF
-chmod +x /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/live-server
-
 cat <<EOF > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/casperize.conf
 export CASPER_GENERATE_UUID=1
 EOF