diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2be89ab..37e1483 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; 2008 Chris Gianelloni, Andrew Gaffney
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 
+  23 Dec 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_cmdline.sh:
+  Allow old 'initramfs' option instead of 'ramdisk' for compatability
+
   17 Dec 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> defaults/linuxrc:
   Remove the use of 'env -i' when calling switch_root due to gentoo bug
   #248688
diff --git a/gen_cmdline.sh b/gen_cmdline.sh
index 954112f..dadf740 100755
--- a/gen_cmdline.sh
+++ b/gen_cmdline.sh
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ parse_cmdline() {
 			BUILD_MODULES=1
 			BUILD_RAMDISK=1
 			;;
-		ramdisk)
+		ramdisk|initramfs)
 			BUILD_RAMDISK=1
 			;;
 		kernel)