diff --git a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
index 7fd26406a..83699c806 100644
--- a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
+++ b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build ()
     map add_binary getent head id cksum tail test tr uptime w who which whoami xargs \
           swapon uniq seq fdisk sfdisk cfdisk parted free less \
           chgrp chown dialog dmesg egrep fgrep stty sync tar bsdcpio hdparm \
-          chroot dirname expr bzip2 su cpio sdparm tput \
+          chroot dirname expr bzip2 su sdparm tput \
           ifconfig losetup mkfifo mknod readlink lzmadec lzop xz last wall mesg utmpdump \
           xzdec switch_root pivot_root chcpu ctrlaltdel gdisk sgdisk cgdisk fixparts findmnt \
           lsfd lsblk swaplabel cal chrt col colcrt colrm column fallocate flock getopt \
diff --git a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_cleanup b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_cleanup
index 95196d95f..801e95a19 100644
--- a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_cleanup
+++ b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_cleanup
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build ()
     apps="getent head id cksum tail test tr uptime w who which whoami xargs \
           swapon uniq seq fdisk sfdisk cfdisk parted free less \
           chgrp dialog dmesg egrep fgrep stty sync tar bsdcpio hdparm \
-          chroot dirname expr bunzip2 bzcat bzip2 su cpio sdparm tput \
+          chroot dirname expr bunzip2 bzcat bzip2 su sdparm tput \
           ifconfig losetup mkfifo mknod  lzmadec lzop lzma lzcat unlzma unxz xzcat \
           lastb last wall mesg utmpdump xzdec switch_root pivot_root chcpu ctrlaltdel \
           gdisk sgdisk cgdisk fixparts findmnt lsblk swaplabel cal chrt col colcrt \