diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 82da676..8c35954 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Id$
 
+  08 Apr 2012; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> gen_initramfs.sh:
+  Fix initrd compression "gzip", reported by Peter Gantner (bug #411197)
+
   30 Mar 2012; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> genkernel:
   Bump version to 3.4.28
 
diff --git a/gen_initramfs.sh b/gen_initramfs.sh
index 419d557..09592bc 100755
--- a/gen_initramfs.sh
+++ b/gen_initramfs.sh
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ create_initramfs() {
 			cmd_lzop=$(type -p lzop)
 			local compression
 			case ${COMPRESS_INITRD_TYPE} in
-				xz|lzma|bzip2|gzip2|lzo) compression=${COMPRESS_INITRD_TYPE} ;;
+				xz|lzma|bzip2|gzip|lzo) compression=${COMPRESS_INITRD_TYPE} ;;
 				best)
 					if grep -sq '^CONFIG_RD_XZ=y' ${KERNEL_DIR}/.config && test -n "${cmd_xz}" ; then
 						compression=xz