diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d0f466b..b462246 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; 2008 Chris Gianelloni, Andrew Gaffney
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 
+  14 Nov 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> defaults/initrd.scripts:
+  Pipe stderr for unionfs mount call to /dev/null to supress getcwd message
+
   14 Nov 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> defaults/initrd.scripts,
   defaults/linuxrc:
   Call switch_root with full path
diff --git a/defaults/initrd.scripts b/defaults/initrd.scripts
index 4dfc4ad..9524a37 100644
--- a/defaults/initrd.scripts
+++ b/defaults/initrd.scripts
@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ setup_unionfs() {
 		mkdir -p ${UNION}
 #		mkdir -p $CHANGES
 #		mount -t unionfs -o dirs=$CHANGES=rw unionfs ${UNION}
-		unionfs -o allow_other,cow,noinitgroups,suid,dev ${rw_dir}=RW:${ro_dir}=RO ${UNION}
+		unionfs -o allow_other,cow,noinitgroups,suid,dev ${rw_dir}=RW:${ro_dir}=RO ${UNION} 2>/dev/null
 		ret=$?
 		if [ "${ret}" -ne 0 ]
 		then