diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 47374c4..f190241 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  19 Feb 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> generic/linuxrc:
+  Remove quotes from around ${ROOT_TREES} so that the dirs are parsed
+  separately by bash/cp
+
   14 Feb 2008; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> gen_compile.sh,
   gen_determineargs.sh, gen_funcs.sh, gen_initramfs.sh, gen_initrd.sh,
   generic/initrd.defaults, generic/initrd.scripts, generic/linuxrc,
diff --git a/generic/linuxrc b/generic/linuxrc
index e1db31e..9bc6ec3 100644
--- a/generic/linuxrc
+++ b/generic/linuxrc
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ then
 	
 	good_msg "Copying read-write image contents to tmpfs"
 	# Copy over stuff that should be writable
-	(cd "${NEW_ROOT}/${FS_LOCATION}"; cp -a "${ROOT_TREES}" "${NEW_ROOT}")
+	(cd "${NEW_ROOT}/${FS_LOCATION}"; cp -a ${ROOT_TREES} "${NEW_ROOT}")
 
 	# Now we do the links.
 	for x in ${ROOT_LINKS}