diff --git a/tests/tftpboot/configuration.nix b/tests/tftpboot/configuration.nix
index f57577d..9196037 100644
--- a/tests/tftpboot/configuration.nix
+++ b/tests/tftpboot/configuration.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ in {
     ../../modules/outputs/ext4fs.nix
     ../../modules/outputs/tftpboot.nix
   ];
+
   config = {
+    hostname = "tftpboot-test";
     # use extracted dts if it was null in the device
     # definition, use actual dts if provided
     hardware.dts.src = lib.mkOverride 500 dts;
diff --git a/tests/tftpboot/script.expect b/tests/tftpboot/script.expect
index a622e15..63d54e2 100644
--- a/tests/tftpboot/script.expect
+++ b/tests/tftpboot/script.expect
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ expect {
 }
 
 expect {
-   "#" { send "test -f /proc/device-tree/reserved-memory/phram-rootfs*/name && tty \r" }
+   "#" { send "test -f /proc/device-tree/reserved-memory/phram-rootfs*/name && hostname \r" }
    timeout { exit 1 }
 }
 
 expect {
-   "/dev/ttyS0" { exit 0 }
+   "tftpboot-test" { exit 0 }
    timeout { exit 1 }
 }
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