diff --git a/bin/libbfa.sh b/bin/libbfa.sh
index 7a4ba806d63eb9dfdd916e17d381d634d798be76..9b363b63f0ba3a0cca5cbf0ae4dcd71e6d396a26 100644
--- a/bin/libbfa.sh
+++ b/bin/libbfa.sh
@@ -193,11 +193,11 @@ function bfainit
             exit 1
     esac
     # Init the blockchain with the genesis block
-    if [ -d "${BFANODEDIR}/geth/chaindata" ]
+    if [ ! -d "${BFANODEDIR}/geth/chaindata" ]
     then
         mkdir -p "${BFANODEDIR}"
         echo "Node is not initialised. Initialising with genesis."
-        geth --config "${BFANETWORKDIR}/config.toml" --networkid ${BFANETWORKID} --cache 0 init "${BFANETWORKDIR}/genesis.json"
+        geth --config "${BFANETWORKDIR}/config.toml" --cache 0 init "${BFANETWORKDIR}/genesis.json"
     fi
 }
 
diff --git a/bin/singlestart.sh b/bin/singlestart.sh
index 0a3615724ea88347e04f9c8f7a87024ec3ebca45..d8fb623bf88304d2e37b56e60295157ae28a5174 100755
--- a/bin/singlestart.sh
+++ b/bin/singlestart.sh
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ exec > ${LOGPIPE} 2>&1
 
 echo "*** Starting geth."
 # "NoPruning=true" means "--gcmode archive"
-geth --networkid ${BFANETWORKID} --config ${BFATOML} &
+geth --config ${BFATOML} &
 PIDIDX[$!]="geth"
 
 # bootnode