diff --git a/system/preload/README b/system/preload/README
index 9cfbb372b5..121c9b57f8 100644
--- a/system/preload/README
+++ b/system/preload/README
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications
 that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what apps 
 users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies 
 into memory for faster startup times.
+
+Note that preload might occasionally interfere with some things;
+at least mkinitrd can experience unexpected/broken behavior.