diff --git a/Deployment/conf_populate.sh b/Deployment/conf_populate.sh
index 25ee327..5a2f6f6 100755
--- a/Deployment/conf_populate.sh
+++ b/Deployment/conf_populate.sh
@@ -158,7 +158,11 @@
 # ==============================================================================================
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-source "$SCRIPT_DIR/../../../load_config.sh"
+# Deployment/ sits one level under the repo root, not three. The old ../../../ resolved to
+# /boot/config on a flash install and /mnt/user on an appdata one — outside the repo either
+# way, so this sourced nothing and every helper below was "command not found". Onboard Step 11
+# has been failing on that since it was written.
+source "$SCRIPT_DIR/../load_config.sh"
 SCRIPTS_ROOT="$SCRIPTS_DIR"
 
 OVERWRITE=false