diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dd612e3..283fcaa 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  29 Feb 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_initramfs.sh:
+  Redirect which output to /dev/null and put quotes around var in test
+
   29 Feb 2008; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> alpha/modules_load,
   genkernel, ia64/modules_load, ppc/modules_load, ppc64/modules_load,
   um/modules_load, x86_64/modules_load:
diff --git a/gen_initramfs.sh b/gen_initramfs.sh
index 659398d..e80213a 100644
--- a/gen_initramfs.sh
+++ b/gen_initramfs.sh
@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ append_mdadm(){
 }
 
 append_splash(){
-	splash_geninitramfs=`which splash_geninitramfs 2>1&`
-	if [ -x ${splash_geninitramfs} ]
+	splash_geninitramfs=`which splash_geninitramfs 2>/dev/null`
+	if [ -x "${splash_geninitramfs}" ]
 	then
 		[ -z "${SPLASH_THEME}" ] && [ -e /etc/conf.d/splash ] && source /etc/conf.d/splash
 		[ -z "${SPLASH_THEME}" ] && SPLASH_THEME=default