diff --git a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
index cd444ec3c..79e9dc787 100644
--- a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
+++ b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ build ()
     apps="getent head id cksum tail tee test tr uptime w who which whoami xargs \
           swapon uniq cut seq snarf sort fdisk sfdisk cfdisk parted free less \
           chgrp chown date df dialog dmesg egrep fgrep stty sync tar bsdcpio hdparm \
-          mktemp chroot dirname expr bzip2 hwclock su cpio dd gzip top sdparm tput \
+          mktemp chroot dirname expr bzip2 hwclock su cpio gzip top sdparm tput \
           ifconfig ln losetup mkfifo mknod readlink lzmadec lzop xz last wall mesg utmpdump \
           xzdec switch_root pivot_root chcpu ctrlaltdel raw gdisk sgdisk cgdisk fixparts findmnt \
-          lsblk swaplabel cal chrt col colcrt colrm column fallocate flock getopt hexdump \
+          lsblk swaplabel cal chrt col colcrt colrm column fallocate flock getopt \
           ionice ipcmk ipcrm ipcs isosize swapoff look lscpu mcookie namei prlimit rename \
           renice rev script scriptreplay setarch setsid setterm taskset ul unshare \
           uuidgen whereis write addpart delpart ldattach partx readprofile rtcwake uuidd \
diff --git a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_common b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_common
index cfd02c222..255c068c7 100644
--- a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_common
+++ b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_common
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ build ()
     ### add basic apps
     apps="init agetty basename mount umount clear env printf gawk tty bash partprobe cp dir du ls mv rm sed grep \
           kill killall more ps pwd rmdir true cat mkdir echo false sleep kmod pidof touch chmod \
-          find wc wget uname bsdtar yes awk halt shutdown reboot poweroff insmod modprobe sh" 
+          find wc wget uname bsdtar yes awk halt shutdown reboot poweroff insmod modprobe sh dd hexdump" 
     for i in $apps; do
         add_binary "$i"
     done