diff --git a/package/base/linux24/linux24.conf b/package/base/linux24/linux24.conf
index 1fea9b533..8b7b59e4b 100644
--- a/package/base/linux24/linux24.conf
+++ b/package/base/linux24/linux24.conf
@@ -72,8 +72,11 @@ main_lx() {
 		  cp -vf vmlinux $root/boot/vmlinux
 		eval $MAKE zImage
 		# copy some specially pre-processed files with version
+		echo "before $IFS"
+		IFS=$' \t\n' # correcly set IFS - it get mangled somewhere ...
+		echo "after $IFS"
 		for x in $(cd arch/ppc/boot/images/ ; ls zImage.*) ; do
-			cp -v arch/ppc/boot/images/$x
+			cp -v arch/ppc/boot/images/$x \
 			  $root/boot/${x/zImage/zImage-$ver}
 		done
 		;;