diff --git a/cmd/mesh-bootstrap/main.go b/cmd/mesh-bootstrap/main.go
index 2d41b74..fc305fb 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-bootstrap/main.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-bootstrap/main.go
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ const (
 	defaultOut      = "/var/lib/mesh-host/substrate.lock"
 	defaultRegistry = "127.0.0.1:5000"
 	defaultHost     = "/usr/local/bin/mesh-host"
-	defaultService  = "mesh-host.service"
+	// The unit this project actually packages, in `packaging/`. It said `mesh-host.service`, which
+	// is not a unit anybody installs — so on a machine with the packaged unit the installer looked
+	// for something absent, and told the operator a real machine needs it installed when it was.
+	defaultService = "nox-mesh-host.service"
 )
 
 const usage = `mesh-bootstrap — make a bare machine into a mesh