diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy.bb b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy.bb
index 34abf50..ce58a53 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy.bb
@@ -8,8 +8,13 @@
 DEPENDS += "systemd"
 
 SRC_URI = "file://service-restart-policy.conf"
+SRC_URI += "file://disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf"
+
 FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system.conf.d/service-restart-policy.conf"
+FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/journald.conf.d/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf"
+
 
 do_install() {
         install -m 644 -D ${WORKDIR}/service-restart-policy.conf ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system.conf.d/service-restart-policy.conf
+        install -m 644 -D ${WORKDIR}/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/journald.conf.d/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf
 }
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..beb2f44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# This file overrides some defaults for systemd
+#
+# OpenBMC uses busybox which uses klogd which causes duplicate
+# kernel messages to show up in the journal due to syslog.
+# This override prevents journald from reading from kmsg so
+# only one instance of the kernel messages will show up in
+# journald instead of the two of each currently put in the
+# journal
+#
+# See systemd-system.conf(5) for details on the conf files
+
+[Journal]
+ReadKMsg=no