diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init.bb
index 0c7a88c..aa55d1b 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init.bb
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 inherit allarch
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+    ${@d.getVar('PREFERRED_PROVIDER_u-boot-fw-utils', True) or 'u-boot-fw-utils'} \
     ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} \
     e2fsprogs-e2fsck \
+    e2fsprogs-mke2fs \
     gptfdisk \
     parted \
     udev \
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh
index 3fad5e6..575b760 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh
@@ -49,6 +49,18 @@
 fi
 
 rwfsdev="/dev/disk/by-partlabel/rwfs"
+mkdir -p /var/lock
+if test $(fw_printenv -n rwreset) = "true"; then
+    echo "Factory reset requested."
+    if ! mkfs.ext4 -F "${rwfsdev}"; then
+        echo "Reformat for factory reset failed."
+        /bin/sh
+    else
+        fw_setenv rwreset
+        echo "Formatting of rwfs is complete."
+    fi
+fi
+
 fsck.ext4 -p "${rwfsdev}"
 if ! mount "${rwfsdev}" $rodir/var -t ext4 -o rw; then
     /bin/sh