diff --git a/overlay/sbin/butterknife-provision b/overlay/sbin/butterknife-provision
index 3bfb25f..5eb4b73 100755
--- a/overlay/sbin/butterknife-provision
+++ b/overlay/sbin/butterknife-provision
@@ -9,20 +9,6 @@ TARGET_MOUNTPOINT=/mnt/target
 AGENT="Butterknife-Provisioning-Image/0.2"
 URL_LOCAL=http://butterknife
 
-
-#######################################
-### Check for presence of utilities ###
-#######################################
-for util in btrfs jq fdisk find ntfsresize udp-sender udp-receiver ntpdate curl ms-sys mktemp test true sort uniq dig; do
-    if [ -z "$(which $util)" ]; then
-        echo "Butterknife was unable to locate $util," \
-            "are you sure the provisioning image was compiled properly?"
-        exit 253
-    else
-        echo "Found $util..."
-    fi
-done
-
 #for i in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
 #    case i in
 #        bk_debug)