diff --git a/layers/meta-nwl-distro/recipes-core/images/nwl-ramdisk-minimal.bb b/layers/meta-nwl-distro/recipes-core/images/nwl-ramdisk-minimal.bb
index 9e8cf03..bbc20e6 100644
--- a/layers/meta-nwl-distro/recipes-core/images/nwl-ramdisk-minimal.bb
+++ b/layers/meta-nwl-distro/recipes-core/images/nwl-ramdisk-minimal.bb
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ COREOS_IMAGE_GENERATE_UKI = "0"
 COREOS_IMAGE_GENERATE_SWU = "0"
 
 IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " \
+	coreutils \
+	ncurses-terminfo-base \
+	\
 	networkmanager-nmcli \
 	systemd-conf \
 	nwl-tests-kernel \