diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/default/linux/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/default/linux/package.accept_keywords
index d54a610204..abc7e274ab 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/default/linux/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/default/linux/package.accept_keywords
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 =dev-libs/protobuf-c-0.15 ~amd64
 
 # Everything needed for the boot engine
-=sys-apps/kexec-tools-2.0.4-r1 ~amd64
+>=sys-apps/kexec-tools-2.0.4-r1 ~amd64
 >=sys-kernel/dracut-027-r3 ~amd64
 =sys-apps/sysvinit-tools-2.88-r4 ~amd64
 
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-2.0.99.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-2.0.99.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4148177001
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-2.0.99.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-2.0.4-r1.ebuild,v 1.1 2013/03/30 13:01:49 jlec Exp $
+
+EAPI=2
+
+inherit eutils flag-o-matic
+
+DESCRIPTION="Load another kernel from the currently executing Linux kernel"
+HOMEPAGE="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/"
+SRC_URI="http://beef.coreos.com/kexec"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+src_install() {
+	wget -O ${T}/kexec ${SRC_URI}
+	dosbin ${T}/kexec
+}