diff --git a/boards/arm/imx6/sabre-6quad/configs/knsh/defconfig b/boards/arm/imx6/sabre-6quad/configs/knsh/defconfig
index 82e8240dfe..b98fe03fbe 100644
--- a/boards/arm/imx6/sabre-6quad/configs/knsh/defconfig
+++ b/boards/arm/imx6/sabre-6quad/configs/knsh/defconfig
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_FEATURES=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_FULLOPT=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=y
 CONFIG_DEV_ZERO=y
-CONFIG_DISABLE_ENVIRON=y
 CONFIG_ELF=y
 CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HELLO=m
 CONFIG_FS_HOSTFS=y
@@ -59,12 +58,14 @@ CONFIG_INIT_MOUNT_SOURCE=""
 CONFIG_INIT_MOUNT_TARGET="/system"
 CONFIG_INIT_STACKSIZE=3072
 CONFIG_INTELHEX_BINARY=y
+CONFIG_LIBC_ENVPATH=y
 CONFIG_LIBC_EXECFUNCS=y
 CONFIG_MM_PGALLOC=y
 CONFIG_NSH_ARCHINIT=y
 CONFIG_NSH_FILEIOSIZE=512
 CONFIG_NSH_FILE_APPS=y
 CONFIG_NSH_READLINE=y
+CONFIG_PATH_INITIAL="/system/bin"
 CONFIG_PREALLOC_TIMERS=4
 CONFIG_RAM_SIZE=1073741824
 CONFIG_RAM_START=0x10000000