diff --git a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell/20-debug-shell.sh b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell/20-debug-shell.sh
index bc339490b..93d2d8b57 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell/20-debug-shell.sh
+++ b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell/20-debug-shell.sh
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ echo "Start the telnet daemon"
 chmod +x /telnet_connect.sh
 telnetd -b "${IP}:${TELNET_PORT}" -l /telnet_connect.sh
 
+# mount pstore, if possible
+if [ -d /sys/fs/pstore ]; then
+	mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore || true
+fi
+
 echo "---"
 echo "WARNING: debug-shell is active on ${IP}:${TELNET_PORT}."
 echo "This is a security hole! Only use it for debugging, and"
diff --git a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell/APKBUILD
index e72cf8d7f..90741dd47 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell/APKBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pkgname=postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-debug-shell
 pkgver=0.1.1
-pkgrel=4
+pkgrel=5
 pkgdesc="Root shell in the initramfs (security hole, for debugging only)"
 url="https://postmarketos.org"
 depends="postmarketos-mkinitfs fbdebug evtest linuxconsoletools reboot-mode"
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ package() {
 		"$pkgdir"/etc/postmarketos-mkinitfs/files/20-debug-shell.files
 }
 
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+sha512sums="8de9bd415adc9ac09763e34bef1ac869105cf42377a233c2fad021b64b3a0a68883feddd056491ef3ce4a1cc892344337aea0898af3834c1396302aed128f782  20-debug-shell.sh
 3274b01850dabe927bc3749f2b4b86eab02adc6954504352401e596e29e044aec512ccead68b471a8009aa8658fe698ffdc67e03c3ca55b7dd54d35c72ac620f  20-debug-shell.files"