diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bea5bdf..6e149fe 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  12 Mar 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_initramfs.sh:
+  Copy with -L so we get the file instead of the symlink
+
   12 Mar 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_initramfs.sh:
   Fix another quoting malfunction
 
diff --git a/gen_initramfs.sh b/gen_initramfs.sh
index c803a23..232e39e 100644
--- a/gen_initramfs.sh
+++ b/gen_initramfs.sh
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ append_firmware() {
 		IFS=","
 		for i in ${FIRMWARE_FILES}
 		do
-			cp -a "${i}" ${TEMP}/initramfs-firmware-temp/lib/firmware/
+			cp -L "${i}" ${TEMP}/initramfs-firmware-temp/lib/firmware/
 		done
 		IFS=$OLD_IFS
 	else