diff --git a/initramfs/ubuntu/hooks/grub-btrfs-overlay b/initramfs/ubuntu/hooks/grub-btrfs-overlay
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..75d4644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/initramfs/ubuntu/hooks/grub-btrfs-overlay
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+PREREQ=
+prereqs() {
+	echo "$PREREQ"
+}
+case "$1" in
+	prereqs)
+		prereqs
+		exit 0
+		;;
+esac
+
+. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions
+manual_add_modules overlay
diff --git a/initramfs/ubuntu/scripts/local-bottom/grub-btrfs-overlay b/initramfs/ubuntu/scripts/local-bottom/grub-btrfs-overlay
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1481587
--- /dev/null
+++ b/initramfs/ubuntu/scripts/local-bottom/grub-btrfs-overlay
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+PREREQ=
+prereqs() {
+  echo "$PREREQ"
+}
+case $1 in
+  prereqs)
+    prereqs
+    exit 0
+    ;;
+esac
+
+. /scripts/functions
+on_err() {
+	panic 'script error'
+}
+trap on_err ERR
+if [ "$readonly" = y ]
+then
+	log_begin_msg 'remount read-only root as read-only layer in non-persistent, writable overlay'
+	lower_dir="$(mktemp -d -p /)"
+	ram_dir="$(mktemp -d -p /)"
+	upper_dir="$ram_dir"/upper
+	work_dir="$ram_dir"/work
+	mount --move "$rootmnt" "$lower_dir"
+	mount -t tmpfs cowspace "$ram_dir"
+	mkdir -p "$upper_dir" "$work_dir"
+	mount -t overlay -o lowerdir="$lower_dir",upperdir="$upper_dir",workdir="$work_dir" rootfs "$rootmnt"
+	log_end_msg
+fi
diff --git a/initramfs/ubuntu/setup b/initramfs/ubuntu/setup
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b9c5aff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/initramfs/ubuntu/setup
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$BASH_SOURCE")" && pwd)"
+install {"$SCRIPT_DIR",/etc/initramfs-tools}/hooks/grub-btrfs-overlay
+install {"$SCRIPT_DIR",/etc/initramfs-tools}/scripts/local-bottom/grub-btrfs-overlay