diff --git a/recipes-apps/images/sysmocom-bsc-ip-image-directdisk.bb b/recipes-apps/images/sysmocom-bsc-ip-image-directdisk.bb
index 3beec90..7ad11b6 100644
--- a/recipes-apps/images/sysmocom-bsc-ip-image-directdisk.bb
+++ b/recipes-apps/images/sysmocom-bsc-ip-image-directdisk.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYSLINUX_TIMEOUT = "2"
 SYSLINUX_SERIAL = "0 38400"
 SYSLINUX_SERIAL_TTY = "console=ttyS0,38400"
 SYSLINUX_LABELS = "boot"
-APPEND = " console=ttyS0,38400 "
+APPEND = "${SYSLINUX_SERIAL_TTY} net.ifnames=0"
 LABELS_append = " ${SYSLINUX_LABELS} "