diff --git a/meta-citadel/recipes-citadel/images/base-realmfs-image.bb b/meta-citadel/recipes-citadel/images/base-realmfs-image.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..437bdb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-citadel/recipes-citadel/images/base-realmfs-image.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "Base RealmFS image"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
+DEPENDS = "citadel-tools-native cryptsetup-native"
+
+PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
+
+inherit deploy
+require citadel-image.inc
+
+REALMFS_DIR = "${TOPDIR}/realmfs"
+CITADEL_IMAGE_VERSION = "1"
+do_realmfs_mkimage() {
+    cat > ${B}/mkimage.conf << EOF
+image-type = "realmfs"
+channel = "${CITADEL_IMAGE_CHANNEL}"
+version = 1
+timestamp = "${DATETIME}"
+source = "${REALMFS_DIR}/citadel-realmfs.ext4"
+realmfs-name = "base"
+compress = true
+EOF
+    citadel-mkimage ${B}
+}
+
+addtask do_realmfs_mkimage after do_configure before do_build
+do_realmfs_mkimage[vardepsexclude] = "DATETIME"
+do_realmfs_mkimage[cleandirs] = "${B}"
+
+do_deploy() {
+    ver=$(printf "%03d" ${CITADEL_IMAGE_VERSION})
+    fname="citadel-realmfs-${CITADEL_IMAGE_CHANNEL}-${ver}.img"
+    install -m 644 -T ${B}/${fname} ${DEPLOYDIR}/base-realmfs.img
+}
+addtask do_deploy after do_realmfs_mkimage before do_build
+
+do_fetch[noexec] = "1"
+do_unpack[noexec] = "1"
+do_patch[noexec] = "1"
+do_configure[noexec] = "1"
+do_compile[noexec] = "1"
+do_install[noexec] = "1"
+deltask do_populate_sysroot
+do_package[noexec] = "1"
+deltask do_package_qa
+do_packagedata[noexec] = "1"
+do_package_write_deb[noexec] = "1"
diff --git a/meta-citadel/recipes-citadel/images/citadel-installer-image.bb b/meta-citadel/recipes-citadel/images/citadel-installer-image.bb
index 5e82833..feda6b0 100644
--- a/meta-citadel/recipes-citadel/images/citadel-installer-image.bb
+++ b/meta-citadel/recipes-citadel/images/citadel-installer-image.bb
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ do_rootfs[depends] += "\
     citadel-rootfs-image:do_image_complete \
     citadel-extra-image:do_image_complete \
     citadel-kernel-image:do_image_complete \
+    base-realmfs-image:do_deploy \
     citadel-kernel:do_deploy \
     systemd-boot:do_deploy \
 "
@@ -37,7 +38,6 @@ install_efi_files() {
 
     install -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/loader/entries
     make_loader_conf > ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/loader/loader.conf
-    #make_install_conf > ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/loader/entries/install.conf
     make_live_conf > ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/loader/entries/live.conf
 
     install -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/misc
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ install_image_files() {
     install_resource_image "rootfs" ${CITADEL_IMAGE_VERSION_rootfs}
     install_resource_image "extra" ${CITADEL_IMAGE_VERSION_extra}
     install_resource_image "kernel" ${CITADEL_IMAGE_VERSION_kernel}
-    install ${TOPDIR}/appimg/appimg-rootfs.tar.xz ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/images/
+    install ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/base-realmfs.img ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/images/
 }
 
 make_loader_conf() {