diff --git a/internal/utils/mounts.go b/internal/utils/mounts.go
index a94949e..b6cde84 100644
--- a/internal/utils/mounts.go
+++ b/internal/utils/mounts.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"github.com/containerd/containerd/mount"
 	"github.com/deniswernert/go-fstab"
+	"github.com/kairos-io/kairos/sdk/state"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -233,3 +234,28 @@ func GetOverlayBase() string {
 	return overlayConfig[1]
 
 }
+
+// GetOemLabel will ge the oem label to mount, first from the cmdline and if that fails, from the runtime
+// This way users can override the oem label
+func GetOemLabel() string {
+	var oemLabel string
+	// Pick both stanzas until we deprecate the cos ones
+	oemLabelCos := ReadCMDLineArg("rd.cos.oemlabel=")
+	oemLabelImmucore := ReadCMDLineArg("rd.immucore.oemlabel=")
+	if len(oemLabelCos) != 0 {
+		oemLabel = oemLabelCos[1]
+	}
+	if len(oemLabelImmucore) != 0 {
+		oemLabel = oemLabelImmucore[1]
+	}
+
+	if oemLabel != "" {
+		return oemLabel
+	}
+	// We could not get it from the cmdline so get it from the runtime
+	runtime, err := state.NewRuntime()
+	if err != nil {
+		Log.Debug().Err(err).Msg("runtime")
+	}
+	return runtime.OEM.Label
+}
diff --git a/pkg/mount/dag_steps.go b/pkg/mount/dag_steps.go
index 4306cb7..d4d4cf7 100644
--- a/pkg/mount/dag_steps.go
+++ b/pkg/mount/dag_steps.go
@@ -176,24 +176,18 @@ func (s *State) LoadEnvLayoutDagStep(g *herd.Graph, deps ...string) error {
 
 // MountOemDagStep will add mounting COS_OEM partition under s.Rootdir + /oem
 func (s *State) MountOemDagStep(g *herd.Graph, deps ...string) error {
-	runtime, err := state.NewRuntime()
-	if err != nil {
-		internalUtils.Log.Debug().Err(err).Msg("runtime")
-	}
 	return g.Add(cnst.OpMountOEM,
 		herd.WithDeps(deps...),
 		herd.WithCallback(
 			s.MountOP(
-				fmt.Sprintf("/dev/disk/by-label/%s", runtime.OEM.Label),
+				fmt.Sprintf("/dev/disk/by-label/%s", internalUtils.GetOemLabel()),
 				s.path("/oem"),
-				runtime.OEM.Type,
+				internalUtils.DiskFSType(fmt.Sprintf("/dev/disk/by-label/%s", internalUtils.GetOemLabel())),
 				[]string{
 					"rw",
 					"suid",
 					"dev",
 					"exec",
-					//"noauto",
-					//"nouser",
 					"async",
 				}, time.Duration(s.OemTimout)*time.Second),
 		),