diff --git a/archiso/mkarchiso b/archiso/mkarchiso
index 7602e6235023060deafd8d07586b7104b5ed8439..e5bd9cb9505bb5ff09b05b0f073db69e8fc984ff 100755
--- a/archiso/mkarchiso
+++ b/archiso/mkarchiso
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ _cleanup () {
     # Delete package pacman related files.
     find "${work_dir}" \( -name '*.pacnew' -o -name '*.pacsave' -o -name '*.pacorig' \) -delete
     _msg_info "Done!"
+    # Create an empty /etc/machine-id
+    printf '' > "${work_dir}/airootfs/etc/machine-id"
 }
 
 # Makes a ext4 filesystem inside a SquashFS from a source directory.
diff --git a/configs/releng/airootfs/etc/machine-id b/configs/releng/airootfs/etc/machine-id
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000