diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/crio-bin/crio-bin.mk b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/crio-bin/crio-bin.mk
index c2568e41bb76..9ff55a42b491 100644
--- a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/crio-bin/crio-bin.mk
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/crio-bin/crio-bin.mk
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ define CRIO_BIN_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
 		$(TARGET_DIR)/etc/containers/registries.conf
 
 	mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/sysconfig
-	echo 'CRIO_OPTIONS="--storage-driver=overlay2 --log-level=debug"' > $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/sysconfig/crio
+	echo 'CRIO_OPTIONS="--log-level=debug"' > $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/sysconfig/crio
 endef
 
 define CRIO_BIN_INSTALL_INIT_SYSTEMD
diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/crio-bin/crio.conf b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/crio-bin/crio.conf
index 6588ccbf8c36..c9aaccd29a3b 100644
--- a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/crio-bin/crio.conf
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/crio-bin/crio.conf
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ runroot = "/var/run/containers/storage"
 
 # storage_driver select which storage driver is used to manage storage
 # of images and containers.
-storage_driver = ""
+storage_driver = "overlay"
 
 # storage_option is used to pass an option to the storage driver.
 storage_option = [