diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-00-set-profile b/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-00-set-profile
index 13a1dc573..d32f94b9e 100755
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-00-set-profile
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-00-set-profile
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ ln -sf ../.."${PORTDIR}/profiles/${GENTOO_PROFILE}" /etc/portage/make.profile
 # Set timezone
 echo 'UTC' > /etc/timezone
 
-# Set locale
-echo 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /etc/locale.gen
-echo 'en_US ISO-8859-1' >> /etc/locale.gen
-locale-gen -q
-eselect locale set en_US.utf8
+if [[ "${GENTOO_PROFILE}" != *"musl"* ]]; then
+    # Set locale
+    echo 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /etc/locale.gen
+    echo 'en_US ISO-8859-1' >> /etc/locale.gen
+    locale-gen -q
+    eselect locale set en_US.utf8
+fi
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-02-flags b/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-02-flags
index 673eeb70a..d44b9f214 100755
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-02-flags
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-02-flags
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ fi
 
 if [[ "${GENTOO_PROFILE}" == *"musl"* ]]; then
     echo "dev-vcs/git -gpg" >> /etc/portage/package.use/musl  # gpg doesn't build on musl profiles
-    echo "=sys-block/open-iscsi-2.0.874-r1 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/musl
+    echo "~sys-block/open-iscsi-2.0.878 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/musl
     echo "=sys-block/open-isns-0.97 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/musl
     echo "sys-libs/pam cracklib" >> /etc/portage/package.use/musl
 fi
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-03-enable-overlays b/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-03-enable-overlays
index 2fc3caa3e..d4d18bc5d 100755
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-03-enable-overlays
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/pre-install.d/02-gentoo-03-enable-overlays
@@ -19,13 +19,9 @@ if [[ ${GENTOO_OVERLAYS} != '' ]]; then
         emerge-webrsync -q
     fi
 
-    # upstream has problems with supporting other libcs still
-    if [[ "${GENTOO_PROFILE}" == *"musl"* ]]; then
-        echo '=sys-block/open-iscsi-2.0.877' >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/open-iscsi
-    fi
     emerge ${GENTOO_EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --oneshot openssl openssh
     # install layman
-    emerge ${GENTOO_EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --oneshot --deep --ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y layman
+    emerge ${GENTOO_EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --deep --ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y layman
     # sync the initial overlay list
     layman -S
     # enable the various overlays, ignore failures (overlay my already be enabled)
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/root.d/10-gentoo-image b/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/root.d/10-gentoo-image
index a84785a1f..ee1a0075e 100755
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/root.d/10-gentoo-image
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/root.d/10-gentoo-image
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ elif [[ "${GENTOO_PROFILE}" == "default/linux/amd64/17.1/hardened" ]]; then
 elif [[ "${GENTOO_PROFILE}" == "default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/hardened" ]]; then
     FILENAME_BASE='gentoo-stage3-hardened-nomultilib'
     SIGNED_SOURCE_SUFFIX='-hardened+nomultilib'
+elif [[ "${GENTOO_PROFILE}" == "default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl/hardened" ]]; then
+    FILENAME_BASE='gentoo-stage3-hardened-musl'
+    SIGNED_SOURCE_SUFFIX='-musl-hardened'
 elif [[ "${GENTOO_PROFILE}" == "default/linux/amd64/17.1/systemd" ]]; then
     FILENAME_BASE='gentoo-stage3-systemd'
     SIGNED_SOURCE_SUFFIX='-systemd'