2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py b/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
index 3fe5c4e26c..c73af9d427 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/wic/partition.py
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ class Partition():
         """
         p_prefix = os.environ.get("PSEUDO_PREFIX", "%s/usr" % native_sysroot)
         p_localstatedir = os.environ.get("PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR",
-                                         "%s/../pseudo" %  get_bitbake_var("IMAGE_ROOTFS"))
+                                         "%s/../pseudo" %  rootfs_dir)
         p_passwd = os.environ.get("PSEUDO_PASSWD", rootfs_dir)
         p_nosymlinkexp = os.environ.get("PSEUDO_NOSYMLINKEXP", "1")
         pseudo = "export PSEUDO_PREFIX=%s;" % p_prefix
diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py b/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py
index 1fa6b917e6..81583e97b9 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ class DirectPlugin(ImagerPlugin):
         if self._update_fstab(fstab_lines, self.parts):
             # copy rootfs dir to workdir to update fstab
             # as rootfs can be used by other tasks and can't be modified
+            new_pseudo = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(self.workdir, "pseudo"))
+            from_dir = os.path.join(os.path.join(image_rootfs, ".."), "pseudo")
+            from_dir = os.path.realpath(from_dir)
+            copyhardlinktree(from_dir, new_pseudo)
             new_rootfs = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(self.workdir, "rootfs_copy"))
             copyhardlinktree(image_rootfs, new_rootfs)
             fstab_path = os.path.join(new_rootfs, 'etc/fstab')