diff --git a/Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh b/Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh
index 949e166d61..597f4babcd 100755
--- a/Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh
+++ b/Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ mknod mnt/dev/zero c 1 5
 mknod mnt/dev/full c 1 7
 # random, is failing (randomly) on fuse-ext2 on macos :)
 chmod 666 mnt/dev/random || true
+ln -s random mnt/dev/urandom
 chmod 666 mnt/dev/null
 chmod 666 mnt/dev/zero
 chmod 666 mnt/dev/full
diff --git a/Ports/dropbear/patches/use-dev-random.patch b/Ports/dropbear/patches/use-dev-random.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f412b6820..0000000000
--- a/Ports/dropbear/patches/use-dev-random.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/sysoptions.h
-+++ b/sysoptions.h
-@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
- /* Source for randomness. This must be able to provide hundreds of bytes per SSH
-  * connection without blocking. */
- #ifndef DROPBEAR_URANDOM_DEV
--#define DROPBEAR_URANDOM_DEV "/dev/urandom"
-+#define DROPBEAR_URANDOM_DEV "/dev/random"
- #endif
- 
- /* client keyboard interactive authentication is often used for password auth.