diff --git a/modules/services/logging/klogd.nix b/modules/services/logging/klogd.nix
index af21f9cc959..907d83c7a6a 100644
--- a/modules/services/logging/klogd.nix
+++ b/modules/services/logging/klogd.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
       exec =
         "klogd -c 1 -2 -n " +
-        "-k $(dirname $(readlink -f /var/run/booted-system/kernel))/System.map";
+        "-k $(dirname $(readlink -f /run/booted-system/kernel))/System.map";
     };
 
 }
diff --git a/modules/system/boot/modprobe.nix b/modules/system/boot/modprobe.nix
index f210ecec26d..41252e2ba0c 100644
--- a/modules/system/boot/modprobe.nix
+++ b/modules/system/boot/modprobe.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ with pkgs.lib;
             # modules in the current configuration don't match the
             # running kernel.
             if [ ! -d "$MODULE_DIR/$(${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/uname -r)" ]; then
-                MODULE_DIR=/var/run/booted-system/kernel-modules/lib/modules/
+                MODULE_DIR=/run/booted-system/kernel-modules/lib/modules/
             fi
 
             exec ${pkgs.module_init_tools}/sbin/modprobe "$@"
diff --git a/modules/system/boot/stage-2-init.sh b/modules/system/boot/stage-2-init.sh
index 51f7bbe8f72..0a42083144d 100644
--- a/modules/system/boot/stage-2-init.sh
+++ b/modules/system/boot/stage-2-init.sh
@@ -155,12 +155,12 @@ $systemConfig/activate
 
 
 # Record the boot configuration.
-ln -sfn "$systemConfig" /var/run/booted-system
+ln -sfn "$systemConfig" /run/booted-system
 
 # Prevent the booted system form being garbage-collected If it weren't
 # a gcroot, if we were running a different kernel, switched system,
 # and garbage collected all, we could not load kernel modules anymore.
-ln -sfn /var/run/booted-system /nix/var/nix/gcroots/booted-system
+ln -sfn /run/booted-system /nix/var/nix/gcroots/booted-system
 
 
 # Run any user-specified commands.