diff --git a/board/orangepione/overlay-initramfs/remove_initramfs b/board/orangepione/overlay-initramfs/remove_initramfs
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..646372bb44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/orangepione/overlay-initramfs/remove_initramfs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ -f /boot/boot-normal.scr ]; then
+    mv /boot/boot.scr /boot/boot-fwupdater.scr
+    mv /boot/boot-normal.scr /boot/boot.scr
+fi
diff --git a/board/orangepione/postscript.sh b/board/orangepione/postscript.sh
index 4fd06ad875..b419b2e394 100755
--- a/board/orangepione/postscript.sh
+++ b/board/orangepione/postscript.sh
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ cp $IMG_DIR/zImage $BOOT_DIR
 cp $IMG_DIR/sun8i-h3-orangepi-one.dtb $BOOT_DIR
 cp $BOARD_DIR/boot.scr $BOOT_DIR
 cp $BOARD_DIR/boot-fwupdater.scr $BOOT_DIR
-
+cp $BOARD_DIR/rootfs.cpio.uboot $BOOT_DIR
diff --git a/board/orangepione/rootfs.cpio.uboot b/board/orangepione/rootfs.cpio.uboot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c981d248cf
Binary files /dev/null and b/board/orangepione/rootfs.cpio.uboot differ
diff --git a/configs/orangepione_initramfs_defconfig b/configs/orangepione_initramfs_defconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..38aebf3f6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/orangepione_initramfs_defconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+BR2_arm=y
+BR2_cortex_a7=y
+BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV4=y
+BR2_CCACHE=y
+BR2_CCACHE_DIR="$(TOPDIR)/.buildroot-ccache-orangepione-initramfs"
+BR2_OPTIMIZE_2=y
+BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
+BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION="-pipe"
+BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM=y
+BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM_PATH="board/common/skeleton-initramfs"
+BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY="board/common/overlay-initramfs board/orangepione/overlay-initramfs"
+BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_CONFIG="board/common/busybox_initramfs.config"
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_GZIP=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_UIMAGE=y
+# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set