1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass b/meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass
index 489819b815..09f5b67c94 100644
--- a/meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ build_boot_bin() {
         # Account for the filesystem overhead. This includes directory
         # entries in the clusters as well as the FAT itself.
         # Assumptions:
+        #   FAT32 (12 or 16 may be selected by mkdosfs, but the extra
+        #   padding will be minimal on those smaller images and not
+        #   worth the logic here to caclulate the smaller FAT sizes)
         #   < 16 entries per directory
         #   8.3 filenames only
 
@@ -102,7 +105,7 @@ build_boot_bin() {
         BLOCKS=$(expr $BLOCKS + $(expr 16 - $(expr $BLOCKS % 16)))
 
         IMG=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.hddimg
-        mkdosfs -F 32 -n ${BOOTIMG_VOLUME_ID} -S 512 -C ${IMG} ${BLOCKS}
+        mkdosfs -n ${BOOTIMG_VOLUME_ID} -S 512 -C ${IMG} ${BLOCKS}
         # Copy HDDDIR recursively into the image file directly
         mcopy -i ${IMG} -s ${HDDDIR}/* ::/