diff -Nru initramfs-tools-0.122ubuntu7/debian/changelog initramfs-tools-0.122ubuntu8/debian/changelog
--- initramfs-tools-0.122ubuntu7/debian/changelog	2016-04-13 18:23:20.000000000 +0000
+++ initramfs-tools-0.122ubuntu8/debian/changelog	2016-04-15 20:44:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * init: busybox hostname doesn't support the '-b' argument, and it's
+    not relevant in this context anyway, as we test -f /etc/hostname.
+  * init: Also fix the wrong redirection of stdout for the above call.
+
+ -- Adam Conrad <adconrad@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:37:22 -0600
+
 initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu7) xenial; urgency=medium
 
   * hook-functions: add hyperv-keyboard for Generation 2 VMs
diff -Nru initramfs-tools-0.122ubuntu7/init initramfs-tools-0.122ubuntu8/init
--- initramfs-tools-0.122ubuntu7/init	2016-02-21 21:22:01.000000000 +0000
+++ initramfs-tools-0.122ubuntu8/init	2016-04-15 20:43:37.000000000 +0000
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
 # mdadm needs hostname to be set. This has to be done before the udev rules are called!
 if [ -f "/etc/hostname" ]; then
-        /bin/hostname -b -F /etc/hostname 2>&1 1>/dev/null
+        /bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname >/dev/null 2>&1
 fi
 
 # Bring in the main config