diff --git a/sh.Linux/init.sh b/sh.Linux/init.sh
index 6490c74f..bbc5e2c6 100755
--- a/sh.Linux/init.sh
+++ b/sh.Linux/init.sh
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ get_KV() {
 # Set the console loglevel to 1 for a cleaner boot
 # the logger should anyhow dump the ring-0 buffer at start to the
 # logs, and that with dmesg can be used to check for problems
-${RC_DMESG_LEVEL+/bin/dmesg -n ${RC_DMESG_LEVEL}}
+if [ -n "${RC_DMESG_LEVEL}" -a "${RC_SYS}" != "VPS" ] ; then
+	dmesg -n "${RC_DMESG_LEVEL}"
+fi
 
 check_statedir /proc