diff --git a/board/nanopineo/overlay-initramfs/prepare_initramfs b/board/nanopineo/overlay-initramfs/prepare_initramfs
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..bb026f2f06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/nanopineo/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/mmcblk1p2 /system
+/system/bin/busybox insmod /system/lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/nls/nls_*.ko
+
diff --git a/configs/nanopineo_initramfs_defconfig b/configs/nanopineo_initramfs_defconfig
index 173c7c8ccb..6967be1ee7 100644
--- a/configs/nanopineo_initramfs_defconfig
+++ b/configs/nanopineo_initramfs_defconfig
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 BR2_arm=y
+BR2_cortex_a7=y
+BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV4=y
 BR2_CCACHE=y
 BR2_CCACHE_DIR="$(TOPDIR)/.buildroot-ccache-nanopineo-initramfs"
 BR2_OPTIMIZE_2=y