diff --git a/pkg/machine/wsl/machine.go b/pkg/machine/wsl/machine.go
index 80ae9f3da0..38219a799f 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/wsl/machine.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/wsl/machine.go
@@ -69,12 +69,6 @@ chown [USER]:[USER] /home/[USER]/.config
 const sudoers = `%wheel        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
 `
 
-const bootstrap = `#!/bin/bash
-ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -q systemd && exit 0
-nohup unshare --kill-child --fork --pid --mount --mount-proc --propagation shared /lib/systemd/systemd >/dev/null 2>&1 &
-sleep 0.1
-`
-
 const wslmotd = `
 You will be automatically entered into a nested process namespace where
 systemd is running. If you need to access the parent namespace, hit ctrl-d
@@ -82,7 +76,13 @@ or type exit. This also means to log out you need to exit twice.
 
 `
 
-const sysdpid = "SYSDPID=`ps -eo cmd,pid | grep -m 1 ^/lib/systemd/systemd | awk '{print $2}'`"
+const sysdpid = "SYSDPID=`ps --no-headers -C systemd --format exe,pid | grep -m 1 ^/usr/lib/systemd/systemd | awk '{print $2}'`"
+
+const bootstrap = "#!/bin/bash\n" + sysdpid + `
+[ -n "$SYSDPID" ] && exit 0
+nohup unshare --kill-child --fork --pid --mount --mount-proc --propagation shared /usr/lib/systemd/systemd >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+sleep 0.1
+`
 
 const profile = sysdpid + `
 if [ ! -z "$SYSDPID" ] && [ "$SYSDPID" != "1" ]; then