diff --git a/board/odroidc1/overlay-initramfs/prepare_initramfs b/board/odroidc1/overlay-initramfs/prepare_initramfs
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..1a0194ad6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/odroidc1/overlay-initramfs/prepare_initramfs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# we don't have the codepage kernel modules compiled in, so we have to manually insert them
+mkdir /system
+mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /system
+/system/bin/busybox insmod /system/lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.ko
+
diff --git a/board/odroidc1/overlay-initramfs/remove_initramfs b/board/odroidc1/overlay-initramfs/remove_initramfs
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..ab6eeb2354
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/odroidc1/overlay-initramfs/remove_initramfs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+sed -i 's/00 0x22000000 0x/00 - 0x/' /boot/boot.ini
+
diff --git a/board/odroidc1/postscript.sh b/board/odroidc1/postscript.sh
index db05fded9e..aeac335477 100755
--- a/board/odroidc1/postscript.sh
+++ b/board/odroidc1/postscript.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ cp $IMG_DIR/meson8b_odroidc.dtb $BOOT_DIR
 cp $BOARD_DIR/bl1.bin.hardkernel $IMG_DIR
 cp $BOARD_DIR/u-boot.bin $IMG_DIR
 cp $BOARD_DIR/boot.ini $BOOT_DIR
+cp $BOARD_DIR/uInitrd $BOOT_DIR
 
 # fix some lib dirs
 if ! [ -L $TARGET/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf ]; then
diff --git a/board/odroidc1/uInitrd b/board/odroidc1/uInitrd
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index 0000000000..cef48975fa
Binary files /dev/null and b/board/odroidc1/uInitrd differ