diff -Naur plymouth-0.9.5/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in plymouth-0.9.5-busybox/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in
--- plymouth-0.9.5/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in	2020-07-08 19:56:54.000000000 +0200
+++ plymouth-0.9.5-busybox/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in	2020-08-04 15:11:56.132537242 +0200
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
         else
             # create directory
             mkdir -m 0755 -p "${initdir}/$_file" || return 1
-            [[ -e "$PLYMOUTH_SYSROOT$_file" ]] && chmod --reference="$PLYMOUTH_SYSROOT$_file" "${initdir}/$_file"
+            [[ -e "$PLYMOUTH_SYSROOT$_file" ]] && chmod $(stat -c %a "$PLYMOUTH_SYSROOT$_file") "${initdir}/$_file"
             chmod u+w "${initdir}/$_file"
         fi
     done
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
         inst "${_src%/*}/.${_src##*/}.hmac" "${target%/*}/.${target##*/}.hmac"
     fi
     ddebug "Installing $_src"
-    cp --sparse=always -pfL "$PLYMOUTH_SYSROOT$_src" "${initdir}/$target"
+    cp -pfL "$PLYMOUTH_SYSROOT$_src" "${initdir}/$target"
 }
 
 # find symlinks linked to given library file