diff --git a/meta-common/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs.bbappend b/meta-common/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cdf163c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-common/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend :="${THISDIR}/files:"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://gxp-obmc-init.sh \
+           "
+
+do_install_append() {
+        install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/gxp-obmc-init.sh ${D}/init
+}
+
+FILES_${PN} += " /init /shutdown /update /whitelist /dev "
+FILES_${PN} += " /init-options /init-download-url "