diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3be9b45..184aba3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  12 Oct 2007; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> genkernel.8:
+  update description for --initramfs-overlay in man page to match --help
+
   05 Oct 2007; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_initramfs.sh,
   gen_initrd.sh:
   remove generic/modprobe and all supporting code, since busybox has modprobe
diff --git a/genkernel.8 b/genkernel.8
index bf1962c..4acc807 100644
--- a/genkernel.8
+++ b/genkernel.8
@@ -246,8 +246,8 @@ If there is a valid kerncache no checks will be made
 against a kernel source tree.
 .TP
 \fB\-\-initramfs\-overlay=\fR<dir>
-Directory structure to inject into the initramfs.
-use a CPIO archive as a parameter.
+Directory structure to include in the initramfs,
+only available on 2.6 kernels
 .SH INITRD OPTIONS
 The following options can be passed as kernel parameters from the
 bootloader, which the initrd scripts would recognize.