diff --git a/board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg b/board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg
index 0ad020b347..c885cd51a6 100644
--- a/board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg
+++ b/board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 image sdcard-emmc.img {
 	hdimage {
 		partition-table-type = "gpt"
+		gpt-location = 16K
 	}
 
 	partition rcw {