diff --git a/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh b/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Get the value of the root env variable found in /proc/cmdline
+get_root() {
+    local root="$(cat /proc/cmdline)"
+    root="${root##* root=PARTLABEL=}"
+    root="${root%% *}"
+    [ "${root}" != "" ] && echo "${root}"
+}
+
+fslist="proc sys dev run"
+rodir=/mnt/rofs
+cd /
+mkdir -p $fslist
+mount dev dev -tdevtmpfs
+mount sys sys -tsysfs
+mount proc proc -tproc
+mount tmpfs run -t tmpfs -o mode=755,nodev
+
+# Move the secondary GPT to the end of the device if needed. Look for the GPT
+# header signature "EFI PART" located 512 bytes from the end of the device.
+magic=$(tail -c 512 /dev/mmcblk0 | hexdump -C -n 8 | grep "EFI PART")
+if test -z "${magic}"; then
+    sgdisk -e /dev/mmcblk0
+    partprobe
+fi
+
+# There eMMC GPT labels for the rootfs are rofs-a and rofs-b, and the label for
+# the read-write partition is rwfs. Run udev to make the partition labels show 
+# up. Mounting by label allows for partition numbers to change if needed.
+udevd --daemon
+udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=add
+udevadm settle --timeout=10
+
+mkdir -p $rodir
+if ! mount /dev/disk/by-partlabel/"$(get_root)" $rodir -t ext4 -o ro; then
+    /bin/sh
+fi
+if ! mount /dev/disk/by-partlabel/rwfs $rodir/var -t ext4 -o rw; then
+    /bin/sh
+fi
+
+rm -rf $rodir/var/persist/etc-work/
+mkdir -p $rodir/var/persist/etc $rodir/var/persist/etc-work $rodir/var/persist/home/root
+mount overlay $rodir/etc -t overlay -o lowerdir=$rodir/etc,upperdir=$rodir/var/persist/etc,workdir=$rodir/var/persist/etc-work
+
+for f in $fslist; do
+    mount --move $f $rodir/$f
+done
+
+exec chroot $rodir /sbin/init