diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb
index d77f92c..3f0b3c1 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/images/obmc-phosphor-initramfs.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 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 ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL} obmc-phosphor-initfs"
+PACKAGE_INSTALL = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} base-passwd ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL} obmc-phosphor-initfs"
 
 # Do not pollute the initrd image with rootfs features
 IMAGE_FEATURES = ""
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"
 
+# Needed for the set_user_group functions to succeed
+DEPENDS += "shadow-native"
+
 PACKAGE_INSTALL_remove = "shadow"
 PACKAGE_EXCLUDE = "shadow"
 BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "busybox-syslog"