diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb
index 846d58930e..184727ddf7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb
@@ -28,3 +28,15 @@ BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "busybox-syslog"
 
 # Use the same restriction as initramfs-live-install
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64).*-linux"
+
+python tinyinitrd () {
+  # Modify our init file so the user knows we drop to shell prompt on purpose
+  newinit = None
+  with open(d.expand('${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/init'), 'r') as init:
+    newinit = init.read()
+    newinit = newinit.replace('Cannot find $ROOT_IMAGE file in /run/media/* , dropping to a shell ', 'Poky Tiny Reference Distribution:')
+  with open(d.expand('${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/init'), 'w') as init:
+    init.write(newinit)
+}
+
+IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND += "tinyinitrd;"