diff --git a/src/arch/i386/config/crt0.base b/src/arch/i386/config/crt0.base
index 73f22e1ba2..763905d528 100644
--- a/src/arch/i386/config/crt0.base
+++ b/src/arch/i386/config/crt0.base
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 .section ".rom.data", "a", @progbits
 .section ".rom.text", "ax", @progbits
 
+	intel_chip_post_macro(0x01)             /* delay for chipsets */
+
 #include "crt0_includes.h"
 
 	CONSOLE_DEBUG_TX_STRING($str_after_ram)
diff --git a/src/arch/i386/config/make.base b/src/arch/i386/config/make.base
index fa7dcf4dfb..b2aee0d903 100644
--- a/src/arch/i386/config/make.base
+++ b/src/arch/i386/config/make.base
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ addaction linuxbios.rom echo $$size ; \
 addaction linuxbios.rom dd if=linuxbios.strip of=linuxbios.rom bs=1 seek=`expr $(ROM_IMAGE_SIZE) - $$size`
 
 
-makerule payload.block : $(if $(PAYLOAD),$(PAYLOAD), linux.bin.gz) ; dd conv=sync bs=$(PAYLOAD_SIZE) if=$< of=$@
+makerule payload.block : $(if $(PAYLOAD),$(PAYLOAD), linux.bin.gz) ; dd conv=sync bs=$(PAYLOAD_SIZE) count=1 if=$< of=$@
 
 makerule linux.bin.gz: linux.bin ;gzip -f -3 linux.bin
 makerule linux.bin: $(LINUX) ;  objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S $< $@