diff --git a/etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/xz-compress/GRMLBASE b/etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/xz-compress/GRMLBASE
index 613eb4bc..b2567a7a 100644
--- a/etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/xz-compress/GRMLBASE
+++ b/etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/xz-compress/GRMLBASE
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 # This file is installed by grml-live in 80-initramfs.
 # Its purpose is to use XZ compression when building initramfs.
 
-# enable XZ compression, reducing initramfs size from ~50MB to ~33M
-COMPRESS=xz