diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/board/coreos/minikube/permissions b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/board/coreos/minikube/permissions
index 02ad93232e96..8e87a5afcaa7 100644
--- a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/board/coreos/minikube/permissions
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/board/coreos/minikube/permissions
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 # https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#makedev-syntax
 
-/usr/bin/toolbox f 755 0 0 - - - - -
-
diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/board/coreos/minikube/rootfs-overlay/usr/bin/toolbox b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/board/coreos/minikube/rootfs-overlay/usr/bin/toolbox
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f38c70ec17a..000000000000
--- a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/board/coreos/minikube/rootfs-overlay/usr/bin/toolbox
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -e
-set -o pipefail
-
-machine=$(uname -m)
-
-case ${machine} in
-	aarch64 )
-		TOOLBOX_DOCKER_IMAGE=arm64v8/fedora
-		TOOLBOX_DOCKER_TAG=29
-		;;
-	x86_64 )
-		TOOLBOX_DOCKER_IMAGE=fedora
-		TOOLBOX_DOCKER_TAG=29
-		;;
-	* )
-		echo "Warning: Unknown machine type ${machine}" >&2
-		;;
-esac
-
-TOOLBOX_USER=root
-TOOLBOX_DIRECTORY="/var/lib/toolbox"
-TOOLBOX_BIND="--bind=/:/media/root --bind=/usr:/media/root/usr --bind=/run:/media/root/run"
-# Ex: "--setenv=KEY=VALUE"
-TOOLBOX_ENV=""
-
-toolboxrc="${HOME}"/.toolboxrc
-
-# System defaults
-if [ -f "/etc/default/toolbox" ]; then
-	source "/etc/default/toolbox"
-fi
-
-# User overrides
-if [ -f "${toolboxrc}" ]; then
-	source "${toolboxrc}"
-fi
-
-if [[ -n "${TOOLBOX_DOCKER_IMAGE}" ]] && [[ -n "${TOOLBOX_DOCKER_TAG}" ]]; then
-	TOOLBOX_NAME=${TOOLBOX_DOCKER_IMAGE}-${TOOLBOX_DOCKER_TAG}
-	have_docker_image="y"
-fi
-
-machinename=$(echo "${USER}-${TOOLBOX_NAME}" | sed -r 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9_.-]/_/g')
-machinepath="${TOOLBOX_DIRECTORY}/${machinename}"
-osrelease="${machinepath}/etc/os-release"
-if [ ! -f "${osrelease}" ] || systemctl is-failed -q "${machinename}" ; then
-	sudo mkdir -p "${machinepath}"
-	sudo chown "${USER}:" "${machinepath}"
-
-	if [[ -n "${have_docker_image}" ]]; then
-		riid=$(sudo --preserve-env rkt --insecure-options=image fetch "docker://${TOOLBOX_DOCKER_IMAGE}:${TOOLBOX_DOCKER_TAG}")
-		sudo --preserve-env rkt image extract --overwrite --rootfs-only "${riid}" "${machinepath}"
-		sudo --preserve-env rkt image rm "${riid}"
-	else
-		echo "Error: No toolbox filesystem specified." >&2
-		exit 1
-	fi
-	sudo touch "${osrelease}"
-fi
-
-# Special case for when SSH tries to pass a shell command with -c
-if [ "x${1-}" == x-c ]; then
-	set /bin/sh "$@"
-fi
-
-sudo systemd-nspawn \
-	--directory="${machinepath}" \
-	--capability=all \
-	--share-system \
-        ${TOOLBOX_BIND} \
-        ${TOOLBOX_ENV} \
-	--user="${TOOLBOX_USER}" "$@"
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index 33fe2ce50372..d76126f0fa64 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Cluster Configuration
 
-* **Alternative Runtimes** ([alternative_runtimes.md](alternative_runtimes.md)): How to run minikube with rkt as the container runtime
+* **Alternative Runtimes** ([alternative_runtimes.md](alternative_runtimes.md)): How to run minikube without Docker as the container runtime
 
 * **Environment Variables** ([env_vars.md](env_vars.md)): The different environment variables that minikube understands
 
diff --git a/docs/debugging.md b/docs/debugging.md
index cb02133ffac8..0e0e69960c37 100644
--- a/docs/debugging.md
+++ b/docs/debugging.md
@@ -10,8 +10,3 @@ To debug issues with minikube (not *Kubernetes* but **minikube** itself), you ca
 
 Example:
 `minikube start --v=1` Will start minikube and output all warnings to stdout.
-
-If you need to access additional tools for debugging, minikube also includes the [CoreOS toolbox](/~https://github.com/coreos/toolbox)
-
-You can ssh into the toolbox and access these additional commands using:
-`minikube ssh toolbox`