diff --git a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go
index fb686b3afd90..cd7afeb4ec4f 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go
@@ -314,6 +314,14 @@ func (k *KubeadmBootstrapper) DeleteCluster(k8s config.KubernetesConfig) error {
 
 // PullImages downloads images that will be used by RestartCluster
 func (k *KubeadmBootstrapper) PullImages(k8s config.KubernetesConfig) error {
+	version, err := ParseKubernetesVersion(k8s.KubernetesVersion)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "parsing kubernetes version")
+	}
+	if version.LT(semver.MustParse("1.11.0")) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("pull command is not supported by kubeadm v%s", version)
+	}
+
 	cmd := fmt.Sprintf("sudo kubeadm config images pull --config %s", constants.KubeadmConfigFile)
 	if err := k.c.Run(cmd); err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "running cmd: %s", cmd)