diff --git a/contrib/mkimage-yum.sh b/contrib/mkimage-yum.sh
index 0e4e8ea1d7..f21a63a225 100755
--- a/contrib/mkimage-yum.sh
+++ b/contrib/mkimage-yum.sh
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ target=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir $(basename $0).XXXXXX)
 
 set -x
 
+mkdir -m 755 "$target"/dev
 mknod -m 600 "$target"/dev/console c 5 1
 mknod -m 600 "$target"/dev/initctl p
 mknod -m 666 "$target"/dev/full c 1 7