diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 801ba6a..ddef411 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -66,11 +66,12 @@ x86) before running on bare metal.
 ## Building and Running
 
 ### Prerequisites
-You will need QEMU for aarch64 emulation.
+You will need QEMU for aarch64 emulation, dosfstools to create the virtual file system
+and gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu to compile bash for the image.
 
 ```bash
-# Install QEMU (Ubuntu/Debian)
-sudo apt install qemu-system-aarch64
+# Install QEMU (Ubuntu/Debian), dosfstools and gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
+sudo apt install qemu-system-aarch64 dosfstools gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
 ```
 
 Additionally you will need a version of the [aarch64-none-elf](https://developer.arm.com/Tools%20and%20Software/GNU%20Toolchain) toolchain installed.
diff --git a/mkrootfs-aarch64.sh b/mkrootfs-aarch64.sh
index 4d2d2d9..53eaa4f 100755
--- a/mkrootfs-aarch64.sh
+++ b/mkrootfs-aarch64.sh
@@ -21,24 +21,27 @@ fi
 
 
 pushd /tmp/bash
-if [ ! -f "$MOUNT/bin/bash" ]; then
+if [ ! -f "/tmp/bash/bash" ]; then
     ./configure --without-bash-malloc --enable-static-link --host=aarch64-linux-gnu CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc
     make
+fi
 
-    mkdir -p "$MOUNT/bin"
-    cp bash "$MOUNT/bin"
+if [ ! -f "$MOUNT/bin/bash" ]; then
+    sudo mkdir -p "$MOUNT/bin"
+    sudo cp bash "$MOUNT/bin"
 fi
 popd
 
 # busybox -- I couldn't get this to build.  I ended up restoring to a third-party static binary which isn't ideal but it get's things running.
-pushd "$MOUNT/bin"
-if [ ! -f busybox-aarch64-linux-gnu ]; then
+pushd "/tmp"
+if [ ! -f "$MOUNT/bin/busybox-aarch64-linux-gnu" ]; then
     wget https://github.com/shutingrz/busybox-static-binaries-fat/raw/refs/heads/main/busybox-aarch64-linux-gnu
     chmod +x busybox-aarch64-linux-gnu
+    sudo cp busybox-aarch64-linux-gnu "$MOUNT/bin"
 fi
 popd
 
-mkdir -p "$MOUNT/dev"
+sudo mkdir -p "$MOUNT/dev"
 
 if mountpoint -q "$MOUNT"; then
     sudo umount "$MOUNT"
diff --git a/qemu-runner.sh b/qemu-runner.sh
index 5768dbf..202d4ca 100755
--- a/qemu-runner.sh
+++ b/qemu-runner.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -e
 ELF="$1"
 BIN="${ELF%.elf}.bin"
 
-sudo bash -c "./mkrootfs-aarch64.sh"
+./mkrootfs-aarch64.sh
 
 # Convert to binary format
 aarch64-none-elf-objcopy -O binary "$ELF" "$BIN"