diff --git a/tests/boulder-start.sh b/tests/boulder-start.sh
index 6ca9e577f..2ab97f53d 100755
--- a/tests/boulder-start.sh
+++ b/tests/boulder-start.sh
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@ export GOPATH="${GOPATH:-/tmp/go}"
 
 go get -d github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
 cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
-
-if [ "${TRAVIS}" == "true" ]; then
-  ./test/create_db.sh || die "unable to create the boulder database with test/create_db.sh"
-fi
-
+./test/create_db.sh
 ./start.py &
 # Hopefully start.py bootstraps before integration test is started...