diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
index 44f0007..59e1e3f 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@
 	if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
 		install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/
 		install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/psplash-init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/psplash.sh
+
+		# make fifo for psplash
+		install -d ${D}/mnt
+		mkfifo ${D}/mnt/psplash_fifo
 	fi
 
 	if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
@@ -122,3 +126,5 @@
 
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "psplash.sh"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 0 S . stop 20 0 1 6 ."
+
+FILES_${PN} += "/mnt"