diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/generic-x86-64.wks.in b/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/generic-x86-64.wks.in
index 3c2863fe..a0a56723 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/generic-x86-64.wks.in
+++ b/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/generic-x86-64.wks.in
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ part /boot --source bootimg-efi-isar --sourceparams "loader=grub-efi" --label ef
 
 part / --source rootfs --fstype ext4 --mkfs-extraopts "-T default" --label platform --size=${ROOTFS_EXTRA} --align 1024 --use-uuid
 
-bootloader --ptable gpt --timeout 2 --append "console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0"
+bootloader --ptable gpt --timeout 2 --append "rw console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 ${ADDITIONAL_KERNEL_CMDLINE}"