diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6289f92..74eaa20 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; 2008 Chris Gianelloni, Andrew Gaffney
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 
+  16 Dec 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> netboot/linuxrc.x:
+  Run getty for tty1 in the foreground
+
   16 Dec 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> netboot/linuxrc.x,
   +netboot/misc/bin/ashlogin:
   Use getty to launch ash, so that we can use ^C and friends
diff --git a/netboot/linuxrc.x b/netboot/linuxrc.x
index e1537d7..3ac8498 100755
--- a/netboot/linuxrc.x
+++ b/netboot/linuxrc.x
@@ -305,9 +305,13 @@ LaunchShell() {
 	#// All Done!
 	echo -e ""
 #	/bin/ash
-	for i in 1 2 3 4; do
+
+	for i in 2 3 4; do
 		getty -n -l /bin/ashlogin tty${i} linux &
 	done
+
+	# Run this one in the foreground, so that our pid 1 doesn't exit
+	getty -n -l /bin/ashlogin tty1 linux
 }
 
 #//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------