diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
index ac054201d0..4d30bde6c3 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
@@ -80,11 +80,13 @@ DISTRO_FEATURES_append_libc-musl = " largefile"
 DISTRO_FEATURES_class-native = "${DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT} ${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC} ${POKY_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES}"
 DISTRO_FEATURES_class-nativesdk = "${DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT} ${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC} ${POKY_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES}"
 
-# Use tmpdevfs and the busybox runtime services
-VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager = ""
-VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = ""
-VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "tiny-init"
-VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps = ""
+# enable mdev/busybox for init
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager = "busybox-mdev"
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "busybox"
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "busybox"
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = "initscripts"
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps = "keymaps"
+DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED += "sysvinit"
 
 # FIXME: Consider adding "modules" to MACHINE_FEATURES and using that in
 # packagegroup-core-base to select modutils-initscripts or not.  Similar with "net" and