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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+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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+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bbappend
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+# We want to have modutils.sh running after checkroot.sh (05)
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 06 S ."