diff --git a/buildroot-external/package/hassio/builder/hostapps.sh b/buildroot-external/package/hassio/builder/hostapps.sh
index c91e0e2df..4368e04f6 100755
--- a/buildroot-external/package/hassio/builder/hostapps.sh
+++ b/buildroot-external/package/hassio/builder/hostapps.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -e
 DATA_IMG="/export/data.img"
 
 # Make image
-dd if=/dev/zero of=${DATA_IMG} bs=1M count=1024
+dd if=/dev/zero of=${DATA_IMG} bs=1024M count=1
 mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0 -i 8192 ${DATA_IMG}
 
 # Mount / init file structs
@@ -12,3 +12,19 @@ mount -o loop ${DATA_IMG} /mnt
 mkdir -p /mnt/docker
 mkdir -p /mnt/supervisor
 mkdir -p /mnt/cli
+
+# Run dockerd
+dockerd -s overlay2 -g /mnt/docker 2> /dev/null &
+DOCKER_PID=$!
+
+starttime="$(date +%s)"
+endtime="$(date +%s)"
+until docker info >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    if [ $((endtime - starttime)) -le $DOCKER_TIMEOUT ]; then
+        sleep 1
+        endtime=$(date +%s)
+    else
+        exit 1
+    fi
+done
+