diff --git a/board/raspberrypi/cmdline.txt b/board/raspberrypi/cmdline.txt
index 79f7e0ae94..a4158cc374 100644
--- a/board/raspberrypi/cmdline.txt
+++ b/board/raspberrypi/cmdline.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable=1 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait ro rootflags=noload panic=10 quiet loglevel=1
+dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable=1 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait rw rootflags=noload panic=10 quiet loglevel=1
diff --git a/board/raspberrypi2/cmdline.txt b/board/raspberrypi2/cmdline.txt
index 79f7e0ae94..a4158cc374 100644
--- a/board/raspberrypi2/cmdline.txt
+++ b/board/raspberrypi2/cmdline.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable=1 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait ro rootflags=noload panic=10 quiet loglevel=1
+dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable=1 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait rw rootflags=noload panic=10 quiet loglevel=1