diff --git a/src/modules/piconfig/start_chroot_script b/src/modules/piconfig/start_chroot_script
index 7283b474e..76ae84008 100644
--- a/src/modules/piconfig/start_chroot_script
+++ b/src/modules/piconfig/start_chroot_script
@@ -47,13 +47,22 @@ cp "${PICONFIG_CMDLINE_TXT_FILE}" "${PICONFIG_CMDLINE_BAK_FILE}"
 echo_green "Disable Serial Linux console ..."
 sed -i 's/console=serial0,115200 //' "${PICONFIG_CMDLINE_TXT_FILE}"
 
-# Step 9: Disable bluetooth and related services
+# Step 9: Enable i2c modules
+# Also needs corresponding bits in config.txt (see #196)
+echo_green "Enabling i2c-dev"
+# Use raspi-config for maintainablilty
+raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0
+# comment out the first enabled i2c_arm line
+sed -i -e 's|^\(dtparam=i2c_arm=on\)|#\1|' /boot/config.txt
+
+
+# Step 10: Disable bluetooth and related services
 echo_green "Disabling Bluetooth related services..."
 systemctl_if_exists disable hciuart.service
 systemctl_if_exists disable bluetooth.service
 systemctl_if_exists disable bluealsa.service
 
-# Step 10: Increase swapfile size
+# Step 11: Increase swapfile size
 if [[ -f "${PICONFIG_SWAP_CONF_FILE}" ]]; then
     echo_green "Increasing swap file size to ${PICONFIG_SWAP_SIZE} Mb. Limit to ${PICONFIG_SWAP_MAX} Mb"
     sed -i 's/^CONF_SWAPSIZE.*/'CONF_SWAPSIZE="${PICONFIG_SWAP_SIZE}"'/' "${PICONFIG_SWAP_CONF_FILE}"