diff -Naur plymouth-0.8.8/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in plymouth-0.8.8-magellan/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in
--- plymouth-0.8.8/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in	2012-09-26 18:50:53.000000000 +0200
+++ plymouth-0.8.8-magellan/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in	2012-11-15 21:01:33.464180093 +0100
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
         else
             # create directory
             mkdir -m 0755 -p "${initdir}/$_file" || return 1
-            [[ -e "$_file" ]] && chmod --reference="$_file" "${initdir}/$_file"
+            [[ -e "$_file" ]] && chmod $(stat -c %a "$_file") "${initdir}/$_file"
             chmod u+w "${initdir}/$_file"
         fi
     done
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
         inst "${_src%/*}/.${_src##*/}.hmac" "${target%/*}/.${target##*/}.hmac"
     fi
     ddebug "Installing $_src"
-    cp --sparse=always -pfL "$_src" "${initdir}/$target"
+    cp -pfL "$_src" "${initdir}/$target"
 }
 
 # find symlinks linked to given library file