diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bbappend b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bbappend
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--- a/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bbappend
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@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-do_install_append() {
-    # We want to have checkroot.sh running before modutils.sh (06)
-    update-rc.d -r ${D} -f checkroot.sh remove
-    update-rc.d -r ${D} checkroot.sh start 05 S .
-}
diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bbappend b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bbappend
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index 2a2fd207..00000000
--- a/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bbappend
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# We want to have modutils.sh running after checkroot.sh (05)
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 06 S ."