diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/bin/setup-nvidia b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/bin/setup-nvidia
index 49f74e6811..c371f0df77 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/bin/setup-nvidia
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/bin/setup-nvidia
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 . /usr/share/flatcar/release
 . /usr/share/flatcar/update.conf
 . /usr/share/flatcar/nvidia-metadata
+[ -f /etc/flatcar/nvidia-metadata ] && . /etc/flatcar/nvidia-metadata
 
 NVIDIA_DOWNLOAD_BASEURL="https://us.download.nvidia.com/${NVIDIA_PRODUCT_TYPE}/"
 NVIDIA_DRIVER_BASENAME="NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION}"