diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ebc345b..dae46bb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  13 Mar 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> generic/linuxrc:
+  Remove -c "/dev/console" from switch_root command
+
   13 Mar 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> generic/linuxrc:
   Add missing $ to {NORMAL} for broken /dev message
 
diff --git a/generic/linuxrc b/generic/linuxrc
index 768e2ce..3789855 100644
--- a/generic/linuxrc
+++ b/generic/linuxrc
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ then
 		umount /proc || echo '*: Failed to unmount the initrd /proc!'
 	echo -e "${BOLD}.${NORMAL}"
 
-	exec switch_root -c "/dev/console" "${CHROOT}" "${REAL_INIT:-/sbin/init}" "${INIT_OPTS}"
+	exec switch_root "${CHROOT}" "${REAL_INIT:-/sbin/init}" "${INIT_OPTS}"
 fi
 
 splash 'verbose'