diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2f6b3f697..6bc6533c9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-05-28  Robert Millan  <rmh@aybabtu.com>
+
+	* util/update-grub.in: Allow chmod call to fail, since /boot/grub/
+	might need to be fatfs to support some firmware implementations
+	(e.g. OFW or EFI).
+
 2008-05-28  Robert Millan  <rmh@aybabtu.com>
 
 	* util/biosdisk.c (linux_find_partition, get_os_disk): Handle MMC
diff --git a/util/update-grub.in b/util/update-grub.in
index cb38610f3..e698e435d 100644
--- a/util/update-grub.in
+++ b/util/update-grub.in
@@ -161,7 +161,10 @@ export GRUB_DEVICE GRUB_FS GRUB_DRIVE GRUB_DRIVE_BOOT GRUB_DRIVE_BOOT_GRUB GRUB_
 export GRUB_DEFAULT GRUB_TIMEOUT GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT GRUB_TERMINAL GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND
 
 exec > ${grub_cfg}.new
-chmod 444 ${grub_cfg}.new
+
+# Allow this to fail, since /boot/grub/ might need to be fatfs to support some
+# firmware implementations (e.g. OFW or EFI).
+chmod 444 ${grub_cfg}.new || true
 
 echo "Updating ${grub_cfg} ..." >&2