diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
index 191429c0e4..4342b226ec 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
@@ -82,3 +82,6 @@ PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0755"
 # Enable our assorted Grub targets, don't whine about /boot
 GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64 pc xen"
 DONT_MOUNT_BOOT=1
+
+# Both x86_64 and i386 targets are required for grub testing
+QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64 i386"
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index 2dee4e6f03..a5dc7c2aab 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -54,3 +54,6 @@ sys-boot/grub -multislot -nls
 
 # disable "high performance ssh" patch
 net-misc/openssh -hpn
+
+# xz and lzo are required to run grub tests
+sys-fs/squashfs-tools lzo xz
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.use
index f6ba9d51b6..29fc597460 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.use
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ sys-apps/dbus		-X -systemd
 sys-apps/smartmontools	minimal
 sys-block/parted        device-mapper
 sys-fs/lvm2		-lvm1 -readline
-sys-fs/squashfs         lzo
 sys-libs/ncurses	minimal
 sys-libs/pam        -berkdb
 sys-libs/gdbm		berkdb
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/Manifest b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/Manifest
index 46e810d3b1..684b061769 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/Manifest
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 DIST dejavu-sans-ttf-2.34.zip 406977 SHA256 242e8c1cb2bdc7458bece02cca898f962c2bc919dcf67d97428149228290184d SHA512 dcd802b9c83cfa749b7542d0855eb1facb665a035af8c05f58830fce3ce37ba8d4a6f0353c07ae924c7fc25460d330b7312cbaffd34a2cb314a8e222de385c1b WHIRLPOOL d8b3289997cc39aca1c909ac1cae79727a19932f07b116a4a0bcc83e4a2f136d05d18c8ef2b05504a2f1f65eba85f93d61d52b0c913be7bb3e23f6a403eb6a82
 DIST grub-2.02~beta2_p20140825.tar.gz 6747194 SHA256 b867af0d7a6ba5848a2d1b24a654303739896e87e96f6a4e8ec6ebcfaa505bbc SHA512 c6a8b72848530c33dea005d045f583ad352b7a59a0af75bc85954441849959c217ed285e9404522ea4c46d9c28e276c2f0d48343e5f6f169eb8eed7135049e54 WHIRLPOOL b6cbca1d3da979fa17d530e7a7de7a9bc0fa32c14e69f8ad217542b248a32dcc1212e604e5784f15663b6b9e5be3933d9cd8c99b183ff2245efa49c2862c3aa2
-DIST unifont-7.0.01.pcf.gz 1358916 SHA256 7618a96ad50703213848af8ecae816828f528bb8ed179a749f7ca2b86eb15805 SHA512 f985e11729d18cb16d3e46fd1004242aa731a9b03ba16035f5954076686e8cdc39df9087daded5e044ead995b03650d8cf1bba9d060d65b5c3af630dbc9e3260 WHIRLPOOL da682398a22abd4282674d9a79b8fdd53e03054863cc166e43e2640dfb7f11c0b71cd3e42431f2086692f3a4202c2ecae9d6d7126249db0127e2da276aae7c9f
+DIST unifont-7.0.05.pcf.gz 1359030 SHA256 c897bc3796b1c460d13fbed1d6d800027886405efa3715a31275183d3f85ce91 SHA512 d75d810521306e912228e10d7e08749392ade4b9f35199fa43694c57779054f152ba9b30ce6c3b3bd9bb925f60aebbb99f00d3448ed039e748e0353c787d9336 WHIRLPOOL 1af9cb9b6b3a4c46e596228d3231ef160300b0a5545c3e091eaceeb2b522ac1b25721f17f7f2f742a5a1ab92ccedebf4fe2649260284ab208dbd8696fa69594c
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2_p20140825.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2_p20140825-r1.ebuild
similarity index 92%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2_p20140825.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2_p20140825-r1.ebuild
index 3aed5d897d..216230a402 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2_p20140825.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2_p20140825-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2.ebuild,v 1.8 2014/06/22 18:02:08 floppym Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub/grub-9999-r1.ebuild,v 1.21 2014/10/19 01:51:58 floppym Exp $
 
 EAPI=5
 
@@ -38,11 +38,9 @@ else
 fi
 
 DEJAVU=dejavu-sans-ttf-2.34
-UNIFONT=unifont-7.0.01
-SRC_URI+=" truetype? (
-	mirror://sourceforge/dejavu/${DEJAVU}.zip
-	mirror://gnu/unifont/${UNIFONT}/${UNIFONT}.pcf.gz
-)"
+UNIFONT=unifont-7.0.05
+SRC_URI+=" mirror://gnu/unifont/${UNIFONT}/${UNIFONT}.pcf.gz
+	truetype? ( mirror://sourceforge/dejavu/${DEJAVU}.zip )"
 
 DESCRIPTION="GNU GRUB boot loader"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/"
@@ -56,7 +54,7 @@ GRUB_ALL_PLATFORMS=(
 	# everywhere:
 	emu
 	# mips only:
-	qemu-mips yeeloong
+	qemu-mips loongson
 	# amd64, x86, ppc, ppc64:
 	ieee1275
 	# amd64, x86:
@@ -66,9 +64,6 @@ GRUB_ALL_PLATFORMS=(
 )
 IUSE+=" ${GRUB_ALL_PLATFORMS[@]/#/grub_platforms_}"
 
-REQUIRED_USE="grub_platforms_qemu? ( truetype )
-	grub_platforms_yeeloong? ( truetype )"
-
 # os-prober: Used on runtime to detect other OSes
 # xorriso (dev-libs/libisoburn): Used on runtime for mkrescue
 RDEPEND="
@@ -80,7 +75,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	device-mapper? ( >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.45 )
 	libzfs? ( sys-fs/zfs )
 	mount? ( sys-fs/fuse )
-	truetype? ( media-libs/freetype )
+	truetype? ( media-libs/freetype:2= )
 	ppc? ( sys-apps/ibm-powerpc-utils sys-apps/powerpc-utils )
 	ppc64? ( sys-apps/ibm-powerpc-utils sys-apps/powerpc-utils )
 "
@@ -91,6 +86,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	sys-devel/bison
 	sys-apps/help2man
 	sys-apps/texinfo
+	grub_platforms_coreboot? ( media-libs/freetype:2 )
+	grub_platforms_qemu? ( media-libs/freetype:2 )
+	grub_platforms_ieee1275? ( media-libs/freetype:2 )
+	grub_platforms_loongson? ( media-libs/freetype:2 )
 	grub_platforms_xen? ( app-emulation/xen-tools )
 	static? (
 		app-arch/xz-utils[static-libs(+)]
@@ -157,16 +156,21 @@ src_unpack() {
 
 src_prepare() {
 	[[ ${PATCHES} ]] && epatch "${PATCHES[@]}"
+
 	sed -i -e /autoreconf/d autogen.sh || die
+
 	if use multislot; then
 		# fix texinfo file name, bug 416035
 		sed -i -e 's/^\* GRUB:/* GRUB2:/' -e 's/(grub)/(grub2)/' docs/grub.texi || die
 	fi
+
 	epatch_user
+
 	if [[ -n ${GRUB_AUTOGEN} ]]; then
 		python_setup
 		bash autogen.sh || die
 	fi
+
 	if [[ -n ${AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF} ]]; then
 		autopoint() { return 0; }
 		eautoreconf
@@ -174,8 +178,10 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 setup_fonts() {
-	ln -s "${WORKDIR}/${DEJAVU}/ttf/DejaVuSans.ttf" DejaVuSans.ttf || die
 	ln -s "${WORKDIR}/${UNIFONT}.pcf" unifont.pcf || die
+	if use truetype; then
+		ln -s "${WORKDIR}/${DEJAVU}/ttf/DejaVuSans.ttf" DejaVuSans.ttf || die
+	fi
 }
 
 grub_configure() {
@@ -222,10 +228,8 @@ grub_configure() {
 		myeconfargs+=( --program-transform-name="s,grub,grub2," )
 	fi
 
-	if use truetype; then
-		mkdir -p "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
-		run_in_build_dir setup_fonts
-	fi
+	mkdir -p "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
+	run_in_build_dir setup_fonts
 
 	autotools-utils_src_configure
 }
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-9999.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e98d31381c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-boot/grub/grub-9999.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,304 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub/grub-9999-r1.ebuild,v 1.21 2014/10/19 01:51:58 floppym Exp $
+
+EAPI=5
+CROS_WORKON_PROJECT="coreos/grub"
+CROS_WORKON_REPO="git://github.com"
+AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF=1
+GRUB_AUTOGEN=1
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_6,2_7,3_2,3_3,3_4} )
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == 9999 ]]; then
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+else
+	CROS_WORKON_COMMIT="x"
+	KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
+fi
+
+inherit cros-workon autotools-utils bash-completion-r1 eutils flag-o-matic mount-boot multibuild pax-utils python-any-r1 toolchain-funcs versionator
+
+DEJAVU=dejavu-sans-ttf-2.34
+UNIFONT=unifont-7.0.05
+SRC_URI+=" mirror://gnu/unifont/${UNIFONT}/${UNIFONT}.pcf.gz
+	truetype? ( mirror://sourceforge/dejavu/${DEJAVU}.zip )"
+
+DESCRIPTION="GNU GRUB boot loader"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/"
+
+# Includes licenses for dejavu and unifont
+LICENSE="GPL-3 truetype? ( BitstreamVera GPL-2-with-font-exception )"
+SLOT="2"
+IUSE="debug device-mapper doc efiemu mount +multislot nls static sdl test truetype libzfs"
+
+GRUB_ALL_PLATFORMS=(
+	# everywhere:
+	emu
+	# mips only:
+	qemu-mips loongson
+	# amd64, x86, ppc, ppc64:
+	ieee1275
+	# amd64, x86:
+	coreboot multiboot efi-32 pc qemu xen
+	# amd64, ia64:
+	efi-64
+)
+IUSE+=" ${GRUB_ALL_PLATFORMS[@]/#/grub_platforms_}"
+
+# os-prober: Used on runtime to detect other OSes
+# xorriso (dev-libs/libisoburn): Used on runtime for mkrescue
+RDEPEND="
+	app-arch/xz-utils
+	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r5
+	debug? (
+		sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl )
+	)
+	device-mapper? ( >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.45 )
+	libzfs? ( sys-fs/zfs )
+	mount? ( sys-fs/fuse )
+	truetype? ( media-libs/freetype:2= )
+	ppc? ( sys-apps/ibm-powerpc-utils sys-apps/powerpc-utils )
+	ppc64? ( sys-apps/ibm-powerpc-utils sys-apps/powerpc-utils )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	app-misc/pax-utils
+	sys-devel/flex
+	sys-devel/bison
+	sys-apps/help2man
+	sys-apps/texinfo
+	grub_platforms_coreboot? ( media-libs/freetype:2 )
+	grub_platforms_qemu? ( media-libs/freetype:2 )
+	grub_platforms_ieee1275? ( media-libs/freetype:2 )
+	grub_platforms_loongson? ( media-libs/freetype:2 )
+	grub_platforms_xen? ( app-emulation/xen-tools )
+	static? (
+		app-arch/xz-utils[static-libs(+)]
+		truetype? (
+			app-arch/bzip2[static-libs(+)]
+			media-libs/freetype[static-libs(+)]
+			sys-libs/zlib[static-libs(+)]
+		)
+	)
+	test? (
+		dev-libs/libisoburn
+		sys-fs/squashfs-tools[lzo,xz]
+		grub_platforms_efi-64? ( app-emulation/qemu[qemu_softmmu_targets_x86_64] )
+		grub_platforms_pc? ( app-emulation/qemu[qemu_softmmu_targets_i386] )
+	)
+	truetype? ( app-arch/unzip )
+"
+RDEPEND+="
+	kernel_linux? (
+		grub_platforms_efi-32? ( sys-boot/efibootmgr )
+		grub_platforms_efi-64? ( sys-boot/efibootmgr )
+	)
+	!multislot? ( !sys-boot/grub:0 )
+	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
+"
+
+STRIP_MASK="*/grub/*/*.{mod,img}"
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+QA_EXECSTACK="
+	usr/bin/grub*-emu*
+	usr/lib*/grub/*/*.mod
+	usr/lib*/grub/*/*.module
+	usr/lib*/grub/*/kernel.exec
+	usr/lib*/grub/*/kernel.img
+"
+
+QA_WX_LOAD="
+	usr/lib*/grub/*/kernel.exec
+	usr/lib*/grub/*/kernel.img
+	usr/lib*/grub/*/*.image
+"
+
+QA_PRESTRIPPED="
+	usr/lib.*/grub/.*/kernel.img
+"
+
+pkg_pretend() {
+	if [[ ${MERGE_TYPE} != binary ]]; then
+		# Bug 439082
+		if ! version_is_at_least 4.8 "$(gcc-version)" &&
+			$(tc-getLD) --version | grep -q "GNU gold"; then
+			eerror "GRUB does not function correctly when built with the gold linker."
+			eerror "Please select the bfd linker with binutils-config."
+			die "GNU gold detected"
+		fi
+	fi
+}
+
+src_unpack() {
+	cros-workon_src_unpack
+	default_src_unpack
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e /autoreconf/d autogen.sh || die
+
+	if use multislot; then
+		# fix texinfo file name, bug 416035
+		sed -i -e 's/^\* GRUB:/* GRUB2:/' -e 's/(grub)/(grub2)/' docs/grub.texi || die
+	fi
+
+	epatch_user
+
+	if [[ -n ${GRUB_AUTOGEN} ]]; then
+		python_setup
+		bash autogen.sh || die
+	fi
+
+	if [[ -n ${AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF} ]]; then
+		autopoint() { return 0; }
+		eautoreconf
+	fi
+}
+
+setup_fonts() {
+	ln -s "${WORKDIR}/${UNIFONT}.pcf" unifont.pcf || die
+	if use truetype; then
+		ln -s "${WORKDIR}/${DEJAVU}/ttf/DejaVuSans.ttf" DejaVuSans.ttf || die
+	fi
+}
+
+grub_configure() {
+	local platform
+
+	case ${MULTIBUILD_VARIANT} in
+		efi-32)
+			platform=efi
+			if [[ ${CTARGET:-${CHOST}} == x86_64* ]]; then
+				local CTARGET=${CTARGET:-i386}
+			fi ;;
+		efi-64)
+			platform=efi
+			if [[ ${CTARGET:-${CHOST}} == i?86* ]]; then
+				local CTARGET=${CTARGET:-x86_64}
+				local TARGET_CFLAGS="-Os -march=x86-64 ${TARGET_CFLAGS}"
+				local TARGET_CPPFLAGS="-march=x86-64 ${TARGET_CPPFLAGS}"
+				export TARGET_CFLAGS TARGET_CPPFLAGS
+			fi ;;
+		guessed) ;;
+		*)	platform=${MULTIBUILD_VARIANT} ;;
+	esac
+
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		--disable-werror
+		--program-prefix=
+		--libdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/lib
+		--htmldir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html
+		$(use_enable debug mm-debug)
+		$(use_enable debug grub-emu-usb)
+		$(use_enable device-mapper)
+		$(use_enable mount grub-mount)
+		$(use_enable nls)
+		$(use_enable truetype grub-mkfont)
+		$(use_enable libzfs)
+		$(use sdl && use_enable debug grub-emu-sdl)
+		${platform:+--with-platform=}${platform}
+
+		# Let configure detect this where supported
+		$(usex efiemu '' '--disable-efiemu')
+	)
+
+	if use multislot; then
+		myeconfargs+=( --program-transform-name="s,grub,grub2," )
+	fi
+
+	mkdir -p "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
+	run_in_build_dir setup_fonts
+
+	autotools-utils_src_configure
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	# Bug 508758.
+	replace-flags -O3 -O2
+
+	# We don't want to leak flags onto boot code.
+	export HOST_CCASFLAGS=${CCASFLAGS}
+	export HOST_CFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
+	export HOST_CPPFLAGS=${CPPFLAGS}
+	export HOST_LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS}
+	unset CCASFLAGS CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+	use static && HOST_LDFLAGS+=" -static"
+
+	if version_is_at_least 4.8 "$(gcc-version)"; then
+		export TARGET_LDFLAGS+=" -fuse-ld=bfd"
+	fi
+
+	tc-export CC NM OBJCOPY STRIP
+	export TARGET_CC=${TARGET_CC:-${CC}}
+	tc-export BUILD_CC # Bug 485592
+
+	# Portage will take care of cleaning up GRUB_PLATFORMS
+	MULTIBUILD_VARIANTS=( ${GRUB_PLATFORMS:-guessed} )
+	multibuild_parallel_foreach_variant grub_configure
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	# Sandbox bug 404013.
+	use libzfs && addpredict /etc/dfs:/dev/zfs
+
+	multibuild_foreach_variant autotools-utils_src_compile
+
+	use doc && multibuild_for_best_variant \
+		autotools-utils_src_compile -C docs html
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# The qemu dependency is a bit complex.
+	# You will need to adjust QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS to match the cpu/platform.
+	multibuild_foreach_variant autotools-utils_src_test
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	multibuild_foreach_variant autotools-utils_src_install \
+		bashcompletiondir="$(get_bashcompdir)"
+
+	use doc && multibuild_for_best_variant run_in_build_dir \
+		emake -C docs DESTDIR="${D}" install-html
+
+	if use multislot; then
+		mv "${ED%/}"/usr/share/info/grub{,2}.info || die
+	fi
+
+	insinto /etc/default
+	newins "${FILESDIR}"/grub.default-3 grub
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	mount-boot_mount_boot_partition
+
+	if [[ -e "${ROOT%/}/boot/grub2/grub.cfg"  ]]; then
+		ewarn "The grub directory has changed from /boot/grub2 to /boot/grub."
+		ewarn "Please run grub2-install and grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg."
+
+		if [[ ! -e "${ROOT%/}/boot/grub/grub.cfg" ]]; then
+			mkdir -p "${ROOT%/}/boot/grub"
+			ln -s ../grub2/grub.cfg "${ROOT%/}/boot/grub/grub.cfg"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	mount-boot_pkg_postinst
+
+	elog "For information on how to configure GRUB2 please refer to the guide:"
+	elog "    http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start"
+
+	if has_version 'sys-boot/grub:0'; then
+		elog "A migration guide for GRUB Legacy users is available:"
+		elog "    http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml"
+	fi
+
+	if [[ -z ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]]; then
+		if ! has_version sys-boot/os-prober; then
+			elog "Install sys-boot/os-prober to enable detection of other operating systems using grub2-mkconfig."
+		fi
+		if ! has_version dev-libs/libisoburn; then
+			elog "Install dev-libs/libisoburn to enable creation of rescue media using grub2-mkrescue."
+		fi
+	fi
+}