diff --git a/usr/share/archboot/base/init b/usr/share/archboot/base/init
index 91817630a..6a5a3e4de 100755
--- a/usr/share/archboot/base/init
+++ b/usr/share/archboot/base/init
@@ -5,9 +5,20 @@ ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
 ln -s /sbin/modprobe /bin/modprobe
 
 msg ":: Loading Initramfs"
+/bin/mount -t proc proc /proc -o nosuid,noexec,nodev
+/bin/mount -t sysfs sys /sys -o nosuid,noexec,nodev
 
-/bin/mount -t sysfs none /sys
-/bin/mount -t proc  none /proc
+if grep -q devtmpfs /proc/filesystems 2>/dev/null; then
+  /bin/mount -n -t devtmpfs udev /dev -o mode=0755,size=10M,nosuid
+else
+  /bin/mount -n -t tmpfs udev /dev -o mode=0755,size=10M,nosuid
+  # We don't have devtmpfs, so add the most important standard devices
+  /bin/mknod /dev/null c 1 3
+  /bin/mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
+  /bin/mknod /dev/console c 5 1
+  # /dev/mem is needed if we want to load uvesafb before triggering uevents
+  /bin/mknod /dev/mem c 1 1
+fi
 
 read CMDLINE </proc/cmdline
 export CMDLINE