diff --git a/board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg b/board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg
index c885cd51a6..82bab26fec 100644
--- a/board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg
+++ b/board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ image sdcard-emmc.img {
 	}
 
 	partition rootfs {
-		offset = 2M
+		offset = 4M
 		image = rootfs.ext4
 		partition-uuid = %PARTUUID%
 	}
diff --git a/configs/kontron_smarc_sal28_defconfig b/configs/kontron_smarc_sal28_defconfig
index 877903a1fe..25846c8cbd 100644
--- a/configs/kontron_smarc_sal28_defconfig
+++ b/configs/kontron_smarc_sal28_defconfig
@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@ BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="128M"
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BUILD_SYSTEM_KCONFIG=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
-BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2021.01"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2022.10"
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="kontron_sl28"
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_DTC=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_PYTHON3=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_PYLIBFDT=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_UTIL_LINUX=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_GNUTLS=y
 # BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_BIN is not set
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_CUSTOM=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_CUSTOM_NAME="u-boot.rom"