diff --git a/base/mkinitramfs/files/50-kernel.sh b/base/mkinitramfs/files/50-kernel.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../mkinitramfs/files/50-kernel.sh
+# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2008 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+MODINFO=${MODINFO:-/sbin/modinfo}
+DEPMOD=${DEPMOD:-/sbin/depmod}
+
+set -e
+
+if [ -n "$moddir" ]; then
+
+	# sanity checks
+	for tool in $MODINFO $DEPMOD; do
+		if [ ! -x "$tool" ]; then
+			echo "ERROR: $tool is no available"
+			exit 1
+		fi
+	done
+
+	if [ "$running" ]; then
+		echo "TODO: building on a running system, we can take the list of active modules."
+	fi
+
+	module_install() {
+		local module= source= target=
+
+		if [ -r "$1" ]; then
+			# absolute path
+			source="$1"
+			module=${source##*/}; module=${module%.ko}
+		else
+			module="$1"
+			source="$( find "$moddir/kernel" -name "$module.ko" | head -n 1 )"
+		fi
+		target="lib/modules/$kernelver/${source#$moddir/}"
+
+		if [ ! -f $target ]; then
+			echo -n " $module"
+			mkdir -p "${target%/*}"
+			cp "$source" "$target"
+
+			for dep in $( $MODINFO "$source" | grep "^depends:" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr ',' ' ' ); do
+				module_install "$dep"
+			done
+		fi
+	}
+
+
+	echo -n "Installing modules:"
+
+	# greedy^3
+	find $moddir/kernel/drivers/{block,ide,ieee1394,md,scsi,cdrom,usb,message} \
+		$moddir/kernel/{lib,fs} \
+		-type f | while read file; do
+		module_install "$file"
+		done
+	echo
+
+	$DEPMOD -ae -b "$tmpdir" -F "$sysmap" "$kernelver"
+fi