diff --git a/roles/2-common/tasks/udev.yml b/roles/2-common/tasks/udev.yml
index f377973fd..91dea1658 100644
--- a/roles/2-common/tasks/udev.yml
+++ b/roles/2-common/tasks/udev.yml
@@ -27,3 +27,9 @@
   shell: systemctl restart systemd-udevd.service
   when: udev_unit.stat.exists is defined and udev_unit.stat.exists
 
+- name: reboot systemd-udevd so it has rootfs open read-write
+  template: src=udev-reboot.service dest=/etc/systemd/system
+
+- name: enable the reboot service
+  shell: systemctl enable udev-reboot.service
+
diff --git a/roles/2-common/templates/udev-reboot.service b/roles/2-common/templates/udev-reboot.service
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f1a7f6297
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/2-common/templates/udev-reboot.service
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Make sure udev is operating on RW disk
+After=network-online.target
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=/bin/systemctl restart systemd-udevd.service
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target