diff --git a/navigation/plan.yml b/navigation/plan.yml
index dd98699..fac1da3 100644
--- a/navigation/plan.yml
+++ b/navigation/plan.yml
@@ -914,6 +914,11 @@ Packages:
     up: status/README.md
     up_label: Package status
   menu_changes:
+  - pages:
+    - README.md
+    label: Start
+    target: '#quick-start'
+    remove: true
   - pages:
     - docs/installation/debian.md
     - docs/installation/ubuntu.md
diff --git a/tests/test_navigation.py b/tests/test_navigation.py
index cd21e89..56e6b20 100644
--- a/tests/test_navigation.py
+++ b/tests/test_navigation.py
@@ -69,6 +69,17 @@ def test_control_repository_uses_declared_navigation(self):
         self.assertIn('One physical prose paragraph.', guide)
         self.assertEqual(page_headers(repo, check=True), [])
 
+    def test_packages_root_removes_start_button(self):
+        repo = self.fixture('Packages')
+        root = repo / 'README.md'
+        root.write_text(root.read_text() + '\n<a href="#quick-start"><img src="docs/media/menu/start.svg" alt="Start"></a>\n')
+        (repo / 'docs/media/menu/start.svg').write_text(_menu_svg('Start', 160))
+        page_headers(repo)
+        self.assertNotIn('href="#quick-start"', root.read_text())
+        self.assertNotIn('alt="Start"', root.read_text())
+        self.assertIn('href="docs/README.md#page-overview"', root.read_text())
+        self.assertEqual(page_headers(repo, check=True), [])
+
     def test_plan_chains_and_label_limit(self):
         validate_plan(self.plan)
         invalid = copy.deepcopy(self.plan)
diff --git a/tools/snodec_sync/navigation.py b/tools/snodec_sync/navigation.py
index 6dcccc4..f0532aa 100644
--- a/tools/snodec_sync/navigation.py
+++ b/tools/snodec_sync/navigation.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def validate_plan(plan):
                 seen.add(path)
                 path = active[path]['up']
         for change in config.get('menu_changes', []):
-            if any(p not in active for p in change['pages']):
+            if any(p != 'README.md' and p not in active for p in change['pages']):
                 raise ValueError(f'{name}: menu change references an undeclared page')