diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index ca7924f..8632387 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -30,3 +30,8 @@ config AIMEEOS_RPI
 	select BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_ARM_EFI
 	help
 	  Support running Aimee OS on Rasperry Pi devices
+
+config AIMEEOS_DEFAULT_ROOTFLAGS
+	string "Default kernel command line argumens"
+	help
+	  Additional command line arguments to pass to the kernel by default.
diff --git a/board/qemu/post-image.sh b/board/qemu/post-image.sh
index e546986..2252507 100755
--- a/board/qemu/post-image.sh
+++ b/board/qemu/post-image.sh
@@ -3,16 +3,12 @@
 set -e
 
 BOARD_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
-GRUBENV="${BINARIES_DIR}"/efi-part/EFI/BOOT/grubenv
 
 genimage_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
 trap 'rm -rf "${genimage_tmp}"' EXIT
 
 mkdir -p  "${genimage_tmp}"/rootfs "${genimage_tmp}"/tmp
 
-grub-editenv "${GRUBENV}" set default=0
-grub-editenv "${GRUBENV}" set timeout=3
-
 cd "${BINARIES_DIR}"
 genimage \
 	--rootpath "${genimage_tmp}/rootfs" \
diff --git a/boot/grub2/gen-grub-cfg.sh b/boot/grub2/gen-grub-cfg.sh
index 84e379a..37adca2 100755
--- a/boot/grub2/gen-grub-cfg.sh
+++ b/boot/grub2/gen-grub-cfg.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ kernel_filename=$1
 cat > "${TARGET_DIR}"/boot/grub.cfg <<EOF
 menuentry "Aimee OS ${vers} (Buildroot ${br2_vers}) on \$dev" --class gnu-linux --id "id-\$partuuid" "\$dev" "\$partuuid" {
     set root="\$2"
-    linux "/boot/${kernel_filename}" root=PARTUUID=\$3 ro
+    linux "/boot/${kernel_filename}" root=PARTUUID=\$3 ro \$rootflags
 }
 EOF
diff --git a/external.mk b/external.mk
index 80abb9c..834c04b 100644
--- a/external.mk
+++ b/external.mk
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ define AIMEEOS_GRUB2_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS
 $(foreach tuple, $(GRUB2_TUPLES-y), \
 	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 $(BR2_EXTERNAL_AIMEEOS_PATH)/boot/grub2/grub.cfg $(GRUB2_CFG_$(tuple))
 )
+$(HOST_DIR)/bin/grub-editenv $(BINARIES_DIR)/efi-part/EFI/BOOT/grubenv set \
+	default=0 \
+	timeout=3 \
+	rootflags=$(AIMEEOS_DEFAULT_ROOTFLAGS)
 endef
 GRUB2_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS += $(AIMEEOS_GRUB2_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS)