diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c b/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
index a8840fe42..c5b76ea97 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ static int __do_bootm_linux(struct image_data *data, int swap)
 
 	kernel = data->os_res->start + data->os_entry;
 
-	if (data->initrd_file && data->initrd_address == UIMAGE_INVALID_ADDRESS) {
+	initrd_start = data->initrd_address;
+
+	if (data->initrd_file && initrd_start == UIMAGE_INVALID_ADDRESS) {
 		initrd_start = data->os_res->start + SZ_8M;
 
 		if (bootm_verbose(data)) {
diff --git a/commands/bootm.c b/commands/bootm.c
index 3c47ab5d9..5f858e8a1 100644
--- a/commands/bootm.c
+++ b/commands/bootm.c
@@ -126,14 +126,6 @@ static int bootm_open_initrd_uimage(struct image_data *data)
 	if (data->initrd_address == UIMAGE_SOME_ADDRESS)
 		data->initrd_address = data->initrd->header.ih_load;
 
-	if (data->initrd_address != UIMAGE_INVALID_ADDRESS) {
-		data->initrd_res = uimage_load_to_sdram(data->initrd,
-				data->initrd_num,
-				data->initrd_address);
-		if (!data->initrd_res)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/common/uimage.c b/common/uimage.c
index 43878b59a..442a7f097 100644
--- a/common/uimage.c
+++ b/common/uimage.c
@@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ int uimage_load(struct uimage_handle *handle, unsigned int image_no,
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (hdr->ih_comp == IH_COMP_NONE)
+	/* if ramdisk U-Boot expect to ignore the compression type */
+	if (hdr->ih_comp == IH_COMP_NONE || hdr->ih_type == IH_TYPE_RAMDISK)
 		uncompress_fn = uncompress_copy;
 	else
 		uncompress_fn = uncompress;
@@ -355,8 +356,9 @@ static struct resource *uimage_resource;
 static int uimage_sdram_flush(void *buf, unsigned int len)
 {
 	if (uimage_size + len > resource_size(uimage_resource)) {
-		resource_size_t start = resource_size(uimage_resource);
+		resource_size_t start = uimage_resource->start;
 		resource_size_t size = resource_size(uimage_resource) + len;
+
 		release_sdram_region(uimage_resource);
 
 		uimage_resource = request_sdram_region("uimage",