diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-257.7-r1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-257.7-r1.ebuild
index 54a029ac1c..4ef4cdc5dc 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-257.7-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-257.7-r1.ebuild
@@ -103,9 +103,6 @@ PEFILE_DEPEND='dev-python/pefile[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]'
 # flag). The image stage fails with "Failed to resolve
 # typeattributeset statement at
 # /var/lib/selinux/mcs/tmp/modules/400/ntp/cil:120"
-#
-# Flatcar: Added a dep on sys-apps/kbd. It provides a loadkeys binary
-# needed by dracut's systemd-vconsole-setup module.
 RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
 	>=acct-group/adm-0-r1
 	>=acct-group/wheel-0-r1
@@ -134,7 +131,6 @@ RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
 	>=acct-user/systemd-resolve-0-r1
 	>=acct-user/systemd-timesync-0-r1
 	>=sys-apps/baselayout-2.2
-	sys-apps/kbd
 	ukify? (
 		${PYTHON_DEPS}
 		$(python_gen_cond_dep "${PEFILE_DEPEND}")
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/coreos-kernel-6.12.54.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/coreos-kernel-6.12.54.ebuild
index e94a073bce..dec4b6be0e 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/coreos-kernel-6.12.54.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/coreos-kernel-6.12.54.ebuild
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ DESCRIPTION="CoreOS Linux kernel"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64"
 RESTRICT="userpriv" # dracut (via bootengine) needs root
 
-RDEPEND="=sys-kernel/coreos-modules-${PVR}"
+RDEPEND="
+	=sys-kernel/coreos-modules-${PVR}
+	sys-apps/kbd
+"
 BDEPEND="
 	sys-kernel/dracut
 "