diff --git a/elements/dracut-ramdisk/extra-data.d/scripts/module/deploy-cmdline.sh b/elements/dracut-ramdisk/extra-data.d/scripts/module/deploy-cmdline.sh
index fe3f9c4a..6582fe16 100755
--- a/elements/dracut-ramdisk/extra-data.d/scripts/module/deploy-cmdline.sh
+++ b/elements/dracut-ramdisk/extra-data.d/scripts/module/deploy-cmdline.sh
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ rootok=1
 # Dracut doesn't correctly parse the ip argument passed to us.
 # Override /proc/cmdline to rewrite it in a way dracut can grok.
 sed 's/\(ip=\S\+\)/\1:::off/' /proc/cmdline > /run/cmdline
-# Map the existing "troubleshoot" kernel param to the Dracut equivalent.
-sed -i 's/troubleshoot=/rd.shell=/' /run/cmdline
 mount -n --bind -o ro /run/cmdline /proc/cmdline
 # Force Dracut to re-read the cmdline args
 CMDLINE=
diff --git a/elements/dracut-ramdisk/init.d/00-override-troubleshoot b/elements/dracut-ramdisk/init.d/00-override-troubleshoot
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a8c5a95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/dracut-ramdisk/init.d/00-override-troubleshoot
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# NOTE(bnemec): Dracut provides its own emergency shell, and it doesn't
+# seem to allow directly starting bash as the existing troubleshoot function
+# does.
+function troubleshoot() {
+    echo "Starting troubleshooting shell."
+    emergency_shell
+}