diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7fd6d425..c24643bf 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ endef
 
 $(foreach _, $(modules), $(eval $(call define_module,$_)))
 
-initrd_lib_dir := initrd/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
+initrd_lib_dir := initrd/lib
 initrd_bin_dir := initrd/bin
 
 #
@@ -194,11 +194,11 @@ initrd_lib_install: $(initrd_bins) $(initrd_libs)
 		| xargs -0 strip
 	LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(INSTALL)/lib" \
 	./populate-lib \
-		./initrd/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ \
+		$(initrd_lib_dir) \
 		initrd/bin/* \
 		initrd/sbin/* \
 
-	-strip ./initrd/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/*
+	-strip $(initrd_lib_dir)/* ; true
 
 
 #
@@ -259,3 +259,9 @@ x230.rom: $(build)/$(coreboot_dir)/x230/coreboot.rom
 
 qemu.rom: $(build)/$(coreboot_dir)/qemu/coreboot.rom
 	cp -a "$<" "$@"
+
+clean-modules:
+	for dir in busybox-1.25.0 cryptsetup-1.7.3 gnupg-1.4.21 kexec-tools-2.0.12 libuuid-1.0.3 LVM2.2.02.168 mbedtls-2.3.0 popt-1.16 qrencode-3.4.4 tpmtotp-git ; do \
+		make -C build/$$dir clean; \
+		rm build/$$dir/.configured; \
+	done
diff --git a/initrd/lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 b/initrd/lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..bdbca7c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/initrd/lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./libc.so
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/initrd/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 b/initrd/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
deleted file mode 120000
index 797a5e51..00000000
--- a/initrd/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modules/musl b/modules/musl
index e249e561..b97fa0c2 100644
--- a/modules/musl
+++ b/modules/musl
@@ -8,9 +8,17 @@ musl_hash := 97e447c7ee2a7f613186ec54a93054fe15469fe34d7d323080f7ef38f5ecb0fa
 
 musl_output := $(INSTALL)/bin/musl-gcc
 
+#
+# Note that for syslibdir to be /lib the install will likely fail.
+# this is unfortunate, but can be worked around by making sure that
+# a /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 symlink exists and points to libc.so
+# for your musl build.
+#
+# Otherwise we'll have to make a whole cross compiler setup.
+#
 musl_configure := ./configure \
 	--prefix="$(INSTALL)" \
-	--syslibdir="$(INSTALL)/lib" \
+	--syslibdir="/lib" \
 
 musl_target := -j 8 install