diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.force b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.force
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+# Copyright (c) 2014 The CoreOS Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# Make sure stage1 bootstrapping does not disable kmod,
+# systemd 213 does not properly build without it.
+~sys-apps/systemd-213 kmod