diff --git a/board/mender/x86_64/post-image-efi.sh b/board/mender/x86_64/post-image-efi.sh
index ab12386076..9ed597d3e4 100755
--- a/board/mender/x86_64/post-image-efi.sh
+++ b/board/mender/x86_64/post-image-efi.sh
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ make_data_partition() {
 generate_mender_image() {
     echo "Creating ${BINARIES_DIR}/${DEVICE_TYPE}-${ARTIFACT_NAME}.mender"
     "${HOST_DIR}/bin/mender-artifact" \
-        --compression lzma \
         write rootfs-image \
+        --compression lzma \
         -t "${DEVICE_TYPE}" \
         -n "${BR2_VERSION}" \
         -f "${BINARIES_DIR}/rootfs.ext2" \