diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-235.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-235-r1.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-235.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-235-r1.ebuild
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
index 2911984fe5..ac305174b9 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
@@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ multilib_src_configure() {
 
 		### CoreOS options
 
+		# Point to a bad path, or telinit in the SDK re-execs itself
+		-Dtelinit-path=/lib/sysvinit/telinit
+
 		# Specify this, or meson breaks due to no /etc/login.defs
 		-Dsystem-gid-max=999
 		-Dsystem-uid-max=999