diff --git a/usr/bin/archboot-setup.sh b/usr/bin/archboot-setup.sh
index 44004e8fa..c3fa7ccd9 100755
--- a/usr/bin/archboot-setup.sh
+++ b/usr/bin/archboot-setup.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 # created by Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
 # source base and common first, contains basic parameters
-. /usr/lib/archboot/installer/base.sh
 . /usr/lib/archboot/installer/common.sh
+. /usr/lib/archboot/installer/base.sh
 # source all other functions
 . /usr/lib/archboot/installer/autoconfiguration.sh
 . /usr/lib/archboot/installer/autoprepare.sh
diff --git a/usr/lib/archboot/installer/common.sh b/usr/lib/archboot/installer/common.sh
index 0b9028ddf..00afaf545 100644
--- a/usr/lib/archboot/installer/common.sh
+++ b/usr/lib/archboot/installer/common.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ LANG=C.UTF8
 _LOCAL_DB="/var/cache/pacman/pkg/archboot.db"
 _RUNNING_ARCH="$(uname -m)"
 _KERNELPKG="linux"
+_NO_LOG="/dev/null"
 # name of the kernel image
 [[ "${_RUNNING_ARCH}" == "x86_64" || "${_RUNNING_ARCH}" == "riscv64" ]] && _VMLINUZ="vmlinuz-${_KERNELPKG}"
 if [[ "${_RUNNING_ARCH}" == "aarch64" ]]; then