diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/state/files/phosphor-reboot-host@.service b/common/recipes-phosphor/state/files/phosphor-reboot-host@.service
index f8f0171..6158086 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/state/files/phosphor-reboot-host@.service
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/state/files/phosphor-reboot-host@.service
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@
 # target this service is running in. OpenBMC needs a refactor of
 # how it does its host reset path. Until then, this short term
 # solution does the job.
-ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "sleep 5 && systemctl start obmc-host-start@%i.target"
+# Since this is a part of the reboot target, call the startmin
+# target which does the minimum required to start the host.
+ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "sleep 5 && systemctl start obmc-host-startmin@%i.target"
 
 
 [Install]
diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/state/phosphor-state-manager.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/state/phosphor-state-manager.bb
index 67988f5..9936156 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/state/phosphor-state-manager.bb
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/state/phosphor-state-manager.bb
@@ -116,13 +116,20 @@
 HOST_REBOOT_FMT = "../${HOST_SHUTDOWN_TMPL}:${HOST_REBOOT_TGTFMT}.requires/${HOST_SHUTDOWN_INSTFMT}"
 SYSTEMD_LINK_${PN}-host += "${@compose_list_zip(d, 'HOST_REBOOT_FMT', 'OBMC_HOST_INSTANCES')}"
 
-# And also force the reboot target to call the host start service
+# And also force the reboot target to call the host startmin service
 HOST_REBOOT_SVC = "phosphor-reboot-host@.service"
 HOST_REBOOT_SVC_INST = "phosphor-reboot-host@{0}.service"
 HOST_REBOOT_SVC_FMT = "../${HOST_REBOOT_SVC}:${HOST_REBOOT_TGTFMT}.requires/${HOST_REBOOT_SVC_INST}"
 SYSTEMD_LINK_${PN}-host += "${@compose_list_zip(d, 'HOST_REBOOT_SVC_FMT', 'OBMC_HOST_INSTANCES', 'OBMC_HOST_INSTANCES')}"
 
+# Force the host-start target to call the host-startmin target
+HOST_STARTMIN_TMPL = "obmc-host-startmin@.target"
+HOST_START_TGTFMT = "obmc-host-start@{0}.target"
+HOST_STARTMIN_INSTFMT = "obmc-host-startmin@{0}.target"
+HOST_START_FMT = "../${HOST_STARTMIN_TMPL}:${HOST_START_TGTFMT}.requires/${HOST_STARTMIN_INSTFMT}"
+SYSTEMD_LINK_${PN}-host += "${@compose_list_zip(d, 'HOST_START_FMT', 'OBMC_HOST_INSTANCES')}"
+
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-state-manager"
-SRCREV = "90e5ae705afa8b63e41815a57cf5858b4ca7e710"
+SRCREV = "969b2613fed44f5b504411b21a9c65d89ed28bf5"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"