diff --git a/sys/arm/conf/WANDBOARD.common b/sys/arm/conf/WANDBOARD.common
index c63ef85cba29..19c74eb16813 100644
--- a/sys/arm/conf/WANDBOARD.common
+++ b/sys/arm/conf/WANDBOARD.common
@@ -153,3 +153,5 @@ device  	mmcsd		# SDCard disk device
 
 device  	ffec		# Freescale Fast Ethernet Controller
 
+options  	FREEBSD_BOOT_LOADER	# Process metadata passed from loader(8)
+