diff --git a/lib/initcpio/hooks/arch_udev b/lib/initcpio/hooks/arch_udev
index 3c03158e6..ad17b7d90 100644
--- a/lib/initcpio/hooks/arch_udev
+++ b/lib/initcpio/hooks/arch_udev
@@ -4,15 +4,27 @@ run_hook ()
     # mount tmpfs, else autodetection will fail!
     mount -n -t tmpfs udev /dev -o mode=0755,size=10M,noexec
     #create missing nodes
-    mknod /dev/null c 1 3
-    mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
-    mknod /dev/console c 5 1
+    mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3
+    mknod -m 0660 /dev/zero c 1 5
+    mknod -m 0600 /dev/console c 5 1
+    mknod -m 0666 /dev/kmsg c 1 11
     # make extra nodes
     ln -sf /proc/self/fd /dev/fd
     ln -sf /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin
     ln -sf /proc/self/fd/1 /dev/stdout
     ln -sf /proc/self/fd/2 /dev/stderr
     ln -sf /proc/kcore /dev/core
+    # these static devices are created for convenience, to autoload the modules if necessary
+    # /dev/loop0
+    mknod -m 0660 /dev/loop0 b 7 0
+    chgrp disk /dev/loop0
+    # /dev/net/tun
+    mkdir /dev/net
+    mknod -m 0666 /dev/net/tun c 10 200
+    # /dev/fuse
+    mknod -m 0666 /dev/fuse c 10 229
+    # /dev/ppp
+    mknod -m 0600 /dev/ppp c 108 0
     echo > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
     msg -n ":: Starting udevd..."
     /sbin/udevd --daemon