diff --git a/fs/skeleton/etc/fstab b/fs/skeleton/etc/fstab
index 87d9da08ee..a2f56ffa65 100644
--- a/fs/skeleton/etc/fstab
+++ b/fs/skeleton/etc/fstab
@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@
 /dev/root       /              ext2	rw,noauto         0      1
 proc		/proc	       proc     defaults	  0	 0
 devpts		/dev/pts       devpts   defaults,gid=5,mode=620	  0	 0
+tmpfs           /dev/shm       tmpfs    mode=0777         0      0
 tmpfs           /tmp           tmpfs    defaults          0      0
 sysfs		/sys	       sysfs    defaults	  0	 0
diff --git a/fs/skeleton/etc/inittab b/fs/skeleton/etc/inittab
index b1e5c164e6..0e504679b0 100644
--- a/fs/skeleton/etc/inittab
+++ b/fs/skeleton/etc/inittab
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 null::sysinit:/bin/mount -t proc proc /proc
 null::sysinit:/bin/mount -o remount,rw /
 null::sysinit:/bin/mkdir -p /dev/pts
+null::sysinit:/bin/mkdir -p /dev/shm
 null::sysinit:/bin/mount -a
 null::sysinit:/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname
 # now run any rc scripts