diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b5e2bbe..c7cbc07 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2006 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  13 Nov 2006; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> generic/linuxrc:
+  Added patch from Tim Steiner <tsteiner@nerdclub.net> to add a real_rootflags
+  parameter for bug #122672.
+
   13 Nov 2006; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
   generic/initrd.scripts, generic/linuxrc:
   Added patch to support resuming from encrypted swap. The patch was submitted
diff --git a/generic/linuxrc b/generic/linuxrc
index ecf96c7..1856595 100644
--- a/generic/linuxrc
+++ b/generic/linuxrc
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ CMDLINE="`cat /proc/cmdline`"
 # Scan CMDLINE for any specified real_root= or cdroot arguments
 REAL_ROOT=''
 FAKE_ROOT=''
+REAL_ROOTFLAGS=''
 for x in ${CMDLINE}
 do
 	case "${x}" in
@@ -178,6 +179,9 @@ do
 		crypt_swap\=*)
 			LUKS_SWAP=`parse_opt "${x}"`
 		;;
+		real_rootflags\=*)
+			REAL_ROOTFLAGS=`parse_opt "${x}"`
+		;;
 	esac
 done
 
@@ -406,7 +410,12 @@ do
 			# mount ro so fsck doesn't barf later
 #			REAL_ROOT_TYPE=`vol_id -t ${REAL_ROOT}`
 #			mount -t ${REAL_ROOT_TYPE} -o ro ${REAL_ROOT} ${NEW_ROOT}
-			mount -o ro ${REAL_ROOT} ${NEW_ROOT}
+			if [ "${REAL_ROOTFLAGS}" = '' ]; then
+				mount -o ro ${REAL_ROOT} ${NEW_ROOT}
+			else
+				good_msg "Using mount -o ro,${REAL_ROOTFLAGS}"
+				mount -o ro,${REAL_ROOTFLAGS} ${REAL_ROOT} ${NEW_ROOT}
+			fi
 		fi
 		
 		# If mount is successful break out of the loop