diff --git a/sys/mips/conf/MALTA b/sys/mips/conf/MALTA
index ab9d38da44f9..fc082ad994a5 100644
--- a/sys/mips/conf/MALTA
+++ b/sys/mips/conf/MALTA
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ options 	FFS			#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
 options 	SOFTUPDATES		#Enable FFS soft updates support
 options 	UFS_ACL			#Support for access control lists
 options 	UFS_DIRHASH		#Improve performance on big directories
-options 	ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:ada0s1a\"
+options 	ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:ada0\"
 
 
 # Debugging for use in -current