diff --git a/.github/scripts/bootstrap.sh b/.github/scripts/bootstrap.sh
index 7a2c14f..5f805e5 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/bootstrap.sh
@@ -13,4 +13,6 @@ git describe --always
 ./scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell
 
 [ "$(ghc --numeric-version)" = "${BOOTSTRAP_HASKELL_GHC_VERSION}" ]
+# https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/7061
+[ "$(ghcup config | grep --color=never meta-mode)" = "meta-mode: Lax" ]
 
diff --git a/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell b/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell
index fa8450d..df9ec4f 100755
--- a/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell
+++ b/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell
@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ edo() {
     "$@" || die "\"$*\" failed!"
 }
 
+eghcup_raw() {
+	"${GHCUP_BIN}/ghcup" "$@" || die "\"ghcup $*\" failed!"
+}
+
 eghcup() {
 	_eghcup "$@"
 }
@@ -381,10 +385,10 @@ download_ghcup() {
     edo . "${GHCUP_DIR}"/env
     case "${BOOTSTRAP_HASKELL_DOWNLOADER}" in
         "curl")
-            eghcup config set downloader Curl
+            eghcup_raw config set downloader Curl
             ;;
         "wget")
-            eghcup config set downloader Wget
+            eghcup_raw config set downloader Wget
             ;;
         *)
             die "Unknown downloader: ${BOOTSTRAP_HASKELL_DOWNLOADER}"