diff --git a/bin/installbfa.sh b/bin/installbfa.sh
index 16dbc07a332bdff706617f378f39930bb4597785..de9d2b386082fa4475bbac4e37a4efc9caac0d65 100755
--- a/bin/installbfa.sh
+++ b/bin/installbfa.sh
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ function initgenesis
         if [ ! -d "${BFANODEDIR}" -o ! -d "${BFANODEDIR}/geth/chaindata" ]
         then 
             info "Node is not initialised. Initialising with genesis."
-            geth --network ${BFANETWORKID} --cache 0 --datadir "${BFANODEDIR}" init "${BFANETWORKDIR}/genesis.json"
+            geth --networkid ${BFANETWORKID} --cache 0 --datadir "${BFANODEDIR}" init "${BFANETWORKDIR}/genesis.json"
         fi
     )
 }
diff --git a/bin/libbfa.sh b/bin/libbfa.sh
index 72915257daa8eb8fe6c45684b7da724fadba9275..2d3a3026ae40c5bd188896f06a277813c06d999b 100644
--- a/bin/libbfa.sh
+++ b/bin/libbfa.sh
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ function bfainit
     then
         mkdir -p "${BFANODEDIR}"
         echo "Node is not initialised. Initialising with genesis."
-        geth --network ${BFANETWORKID} --cache 0 --datadir "${BFANODEDIR}" init "${BFANETWORKDIR}/genesis.json"
+        geth --networkid ${BFANETWORKID} --cache 0 --datadir "${BFANODEDIR}" init "${BFANETWORKDIR}/genesis.json"
     fi
 }