diff --git a/common/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bbappend b/common/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bbappend
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--- a/common/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bbappend
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-PACKAGE_INSTALL_remove = "initramfs-live-boot initramfs-live-install initramfs-live-install-efi"
-PACKAGE_INSTALL += "obmc-phosphor-initfs"
-INITRAMFS_CTYPE ?= "lzma"
-INITRAMFS_FSTYPES = "cpio.${INITRAMFS_CTYPE}"
diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb
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index 0000000..b68048a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "Small image capable of booting a device. The kernel includes \
+the Minimal RAM-based Initial Root Filesystem (initramfs), which finds the \
+first 'init' program more efficiently."
+
+PACKAGE_INSTALL = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} udev base-passwd ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL} obmc-phosphor-initfs"
+
+# Do not pollute the initrd image with rootfs features
+IMAGE_FEATURES = ""
+
+export IMAGE_BASENAME = "obmc-phosphor-initramfs"
+IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""
+
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+IMAGE_FSTYPES = "${INITRAMFS_FSTYPES}"
+inherit core-image
+
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"
+
+BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "busybox-syslog"