diff --git a/config/redbear-legacy-base.toml b/config/redbear-legacy-base.toml
index 1d8f24834f..13b7ed72e1 100644
--- a/config/redbear-legacy-base.toml
+++ b/config/redbear-legacy-base.toml
@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
 # Red Bear OS overrides for base init services.
 #
-# 00_base.service: stripped base setup (tmpdir only, no sudo — sudo runs from
-#                  base.toml's 00_sudo.service). ipcd and ptyd are started by
-#                  00_ipcd.service and 00_ptyd.service from the base recipe.
-# 00_drivers / 10_net: no longer overridden — the legacy scripts were removed
-#             from base.toml. The retained 00_pcid-spawner.service unit name now
-#             launches driver-manager so existing init ordering remains stable.
-# 00_pcid-spawner.service: compatibility wrapper for driver-manager. The base
-#          recipe uses type="oneshot" which blocks init until pcid-spawner exits.
-#          Running driver-manager here with oneshot_async keeps the historic unit
-#          name for downstream `requires_weak` consumers while moving PCI driver
-#          spawning to the manager that performs bind/channel handoff.
+# 00_base.service: stripped base setup (tmpdir only). The base recipe provides
+# no 00_base.service, so this override is the sole source. It MUST NOT use zsh:
+# a full interactive shell startup hangs an init oneshot here (before the login
+# stack even starts), whereas a simple dynamically-linked /usr binary like
+# mkdir/echo completes cleanly after switchroot. See the
+# usr-dynamic-service-spawn-hang investigation — the hang was zsh-specific,
+# not a general /usr spawn failure.
+#
+# Removed 2026-07-19 (consolidation):
+# - 20_audiod.service: redundant — base recipe's own 20_audiod.service is
+#   already identical (oneshot_async).
+# - zsh = {}: redundant — already provided by minimal.toml.
+# - 00_pcid-spawner.service (type = "oneshot"): HARMFUL — this blocking
+#   oneshot overrode the base recipe's fixed oneshot_async pcid-spawner,
+#   re-introducing the boot-wedge the base recipe's comment explicitly warns
+#   against ("a single slow/hanging driver wedges the whole boot right here").
+#   The base recipe's oneshot_async version is the correct one and now wins.
 
 [packages]
-zsh = {}
 
 [[files]]
 path = "/etc/init.d/00_base.service"
@@ -22,36 +27,7 @@ data = """
 description = "Base environment setup (tmpdir)"
 
 [service]
-# Create the world-writable, sticky /tmp with mkdir (uutils, Rust). This must
-# NOT use zsh: a full interactive shell startup hangs the init oneshot here
-# (before the login stack even starts), whereas a simple dynamically-linked
-# /usr binary like mkdir/echo completes cleanly after switchroot. See the
-# usr-dynamic-service-spawn-hang investigation — the hang was zsh-specific,
-# not a general /usr spawn failure.
 cmd = "mkdir"
 args = ["-p", "-m", "a=rwxt", "/tmp"]
 type = "oneshot"
 """
-
-[[files]]
-path = "/etc/init.d/20_audiod.service"
-data = """
-[unit]
-description = "Audio multiplexer"
-default_dependencies = false
-
-[service]
-cmd = "audiod"
-type = "oneshot_async"
-"""
-
-[[files]]
-path = "/etc/init.d/00_pcid-spawner.service"
-data = """
-[unit]
-description = "PCI driver spawner"
-
-[service]
-cmd = "pcid-spawner"
-type = "oneshot"
-"""