diff --git a/stages/org.osbuild.coreos.live-artifacts.mono b/stages/org.osbuild.coreos.live-artifacts.mono
index 4a95b607..35ecac4e 100755
--- a/stages/org.osbuild.coreos.live-artifacts.mono
+++ b/stages/org.osbuild.coreos.live-artifacts.mono
@@ -130,11 +130,6 @@ def make_stream_hash(src, dest):
                 outf.write(hashlib.sha256(buf).hexdigest() + '\n')
 
 
-def get_os_name(tree):
-    os_release = osrelease.parse_files(os.path.join(tree, 'usr', 'lib', 'os-release'))
-    return f"{os_release['ID']}-{os_release['VARIANT_ID']}"
-
-
 def ensure_glob(pathname, n="", **kwargs):
     """
     Call glob.glob() and fail if there are no results or
@@ -300,7 +295,7 @@ def genisoargs_s390x(paths, test_fixture, volid, name_version):
             os.path.join(os.path.relpath(paths["iso/images"], paths["iso"]), 'cdboot.img')]
 
 
-def gen_live_artifacts(paths, tree, filenames, deployed_tree, loop_client, version, blsentry_kargs):
+def gen_live_artifacts(paths, tree, filenames, deployed_tree, loop_client, version, blsentry_kargs, osname):
     """
     Generate the ISO image.
     Based on the Lorax templates [1].
@@ -310,7 +305,7 @@ def gen_live_artifacts(paths, tree, filenames, deployed_tree, loop_client, versi
     [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/BootableCDsForBIOSAndUEFI
     """
 
-    base_name = get_os_name(tree=deployed_tree)
+    base_name = osname
     name_version = f'{base_name}-{version}'
     # The short volume ID can only be 32 characters (bytes probably). We may in
     # the future want to shorten this more intelligently, otherwise we truncate the
@@ -555,7 +550,7 @@ def mkrootfs_metal(paths, workdir, img_metal, fstype, fsoptions, loop_client):
     Mounts a copy of the metal image and modifies it accordingly to create a (fstype) rootfs from its contents for the
     live ISO. fstype must be squashfs or erofs.
 
-    Returns the bls entry kernel arguments for the ISO bootloader.
+    Returns the bls entry kernel arguments for the ISO bootloader and the OS name extracted from the aleph.
     """
     basearch = os.uname().machine
     tmp_rootfs_dir = os.path.join(workdir, 'tmp-rootfs-dir')
@@ -637,7 +632,15 @@ def mkrootfs_metal(paths, workdir, img_metal, fstype, fsoptions, loop_client):
             if len(blsentry_kargs) == 0:
                 raise ValueError("found no kargs in metal image")
 
-    return blsentry_kargs
+            # while we're here, also get the OS name from the aleph since we'll
+            # need that for the volume ID
+            ALEPH_FILENAME = ".aleph-version.json"
+            with open(os.path.join(tmp_rootfs_dir, ALEPH_FILENAME), encoding='utf8') as f:
+                aleph = json.load(f)
+
+            osname = aleph.get('container-image', {}).get('image-labels', {}).get('com.coreos.osname')
+
+    return (blsentry_kargs, osname)
 
 
 # pylint: disable=too-many-branches
@@ -923,7 +926,11 @@ def main(workdir, tree, inputs, options, loop_client):
 
     mk_osmet_files(deployed_tree, img_metal, img_metal4k, loop_client, paths, os_release)
 
-    blsentry_kargs = mkrootfs_metal(paths, workdir, img_metal, fstype, fsoptions, loop_client)
+    blsentry_kargs, osname = mkrootfs_metal(paths, workdir, img_metal, fstype, fsoptions, loop_client)
+    if not osname:
+        osname = os_release['ID']
+        if 'VARIANT_ID' in os_release:
+            osname += f"-{os_release['VARIANT_ID']}"
 
     # Generate rootfs image
     # The rootfs must be uncompressed because the ISO mounts root.squashfs
@@ -951,7 +958,7 @@ def main(workdir, tree, inputs, options, loop_client):
     extend_initramfs(initramfs=paths["iso/images/pxeboot/initrd.img"], tree=paths["initrd"])
 
     filenames = options['filenames']
-    gen_live_artifacts(paths, tree, filenames, deployed_tree, loop_client, version, blsentry_kargs)
+    gen_live_artifacts(paths, tree, filenames, deployed_tree, loop_client, version, blsentry_kargs, osname)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":