diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs.bb b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs.bb
index 970af47..6d0c70e 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs.bb
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 inherit allarch
 
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
+
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
 SRC_URI += "file://obmc-init.sh"
 SRC_URI += "file://obmc-shutdown.sh"