diff --git a/build_library/oem/ami/grub.cfg b/build_library/oem/ami/grub.cfg
index 7b18156766d..1c56306b54e 100644
--- a/build_library/oem/ami/grub.cfg
+++ b/build_library/oem/ami/grub.cfg
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ if [ "$grub_platform" = pc ]; then
 	terminal_output serial_com0
 fi
 if [ "$grub_cpu" = arm64 ]; then
-	set linux_console="console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 earlycon"
+	set linux_console="console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8"
 fi
diff --git a/changelog/bugfixes/2026-10-09-ec2-arm64-earlycon.md b/changelog/bugfixes/2026-10-09-ec2-arm64-earlycon.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..af48f919102
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/bugfixes/2026-10-09-ec2-arm64-earlycon.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- AWS arm64: Removed bare `earlycon` from the kernel command line. It took the UART address from the ACPI SPCR table, which is wrong on Graviton, and could hang boot when an NVMe device was mapped at that address, e.g. on t4g instances with an additional EBS volume. ([Flatcar#2446](https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/issues/2446))