diff --git a/eng/pipelines/coreclr/templates/crossgen2-comparison-build-job.yml b/eng/pipelines/coreclr/templates/crossgen2-comparison-build-job.yml
index 70b45ba22ca276..4e55b89f5c7ef7 100644
--- a/eng/pipelines/coreclr/templates/crossgen2-comparison-build-job.yml
+++ b/eng/pipelines/coreclr/templates/crossgen2-comparison-build-job.yml
@@ -119,17 +119,6 @@ jobs:
         displayName: Create directories
         failOnStderr: true
 
-    # Pre-initialize the dotnet CLI so that sdk.txt is populated before the
-    # parallel crossgen2 fan-out. Without this, 236 parallel dotnet.cmd
-    # invocations race to create artifacts/toolset/sdk.txt, and some may
-    # read it before it exists, producing a "dotnet.exe not found" error.
-    - ${{ if ne(parameters.osGroup, 'windows') }}:
-      - script: $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/dotnet.sh --version
-        displayName: Pre-initialize dotnet CLI
-    - ${{ if eq(parameters.osGroup, 'windows') }}:
-      - script: $(Build.SourcesDirectory)\dotnet.cmd --version
-        displayName: Pre-initialize dotnet CLI
-
     # Create baseline output on the host (x64) machine
     - task: PythonScript@0
       displayName: Create cross-platform crossgen baseline
@@ -151,7 +140,7 @@ jobs:
           arguments:
             crossgen_framework
             --crossgen    $(crossgen2location)
-            --dotnet      $(Build.SourcesDirectory)\dotnet.cmd
+            --dotnet      $(Build.SourcesDirectory)\eng\common\dotnet.cmd
             --core_root   $(workItemDirectory)\dlls
             --result_dir  $(workItemDirectory)\log
             --target_os   $(target_crossgen2_os)