diff --git a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
index d44cf67..8da7890 100644
--- a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
+++ b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
 # Copyright (C) Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
 # Copyright (C) 2006 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
 #
@@ -105,9 +105,9 @@
 # for links, devices etc the format differs. See gen_init_cpio for details
 parse() {
 	local location="$1"
-	local name="${location/${srcdir}//}"
+	local name="/${location#${srcdir}}"
 	# change '//' into '/'
-	name="${name//\/\///}"
+	name=$(echo "$name" | sed -e 's://*:/:g')
 	local mode="$2"
 	local uid="$3"
 	local gid="$4"
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@
 	[ "$root_gid" = "squash" ] && gid=0 || [ "$gid" -eq "$root_gid" ] && gid=0
 	local str="${mode} ${uid} ${gid}"
 
-	[ "${ftype}" == "invalid" ] && return 0
-	[ "${location}" == "${srcdir}" ] && return 0
+	[ "${ftype}" = "invalid" ] && return 0
+	[ "${location}" = "${srcdir}" ] && return 0
 
 	case "${ftype}" in
 		"file")
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
 	if [ -f "$1" ]; then
 		${dep_list}header "$1"
 		is_cpio="$(echo "$1" | sed 's/^.*\.cpio\(\..*\)\?/cpio/')"
-		if [ $2 -eq 0 -a ${is_cpio} == "cpio" ]; then
+		if [ $2 -eq 0 -a ${is_cpio} = "cpio" ]; then
 			cpio_file=$1
 			echo "$1" | grep -q '^.*\.cpio\..*' && is_cpio_compressed="compressed"
 			[ ! -z ${dep_list} ] && echo "$1"
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
 		else
 		        echo "$1 \\"
 			cat "$1" | while read type dir file perm ; do
-				if [ "$type" == "file" ]; then
+				if [ "$type" = "file" ]; then
 					echo "$file \\";
 				fi
 			done