diff --git a/confluent_server/confluent/osimage.py b/confluent_server/confluent/osimage.py
index b1643135..8884e0e9 100644
--- a/confluent_server/confluent/osimage.py
+++ b/confluent_server/confluent/osimage.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import eventlet
 import eventlet.green.select as select
 import eventlet.green.subprocess as subprocess
+from fnmatch import fnmatch
 import glob
 import logging
 logging.getLogger('libarchive').addHandler(logging.NullHandler())
@@ -153,6 +154,14 @@ def update_boot_esxi(profiledir, profile, label):
          '{0}/boot.img'.format(profiledir), profname], preexec_fn=relax_umask)
 
 
+def find_glob(loc, fileglob):
+    for cdir, _, fs in os.walk(loc):
+        for f in fs:
+            if fnmatch(f, fileglob):
+                return os.path.join(cdir, f)
+    return None
+
+
 def update_boot_linux(profiledir, profile, label):
     profname = os.path.basename(profiledir)
     kernelargs = profile.get('kernelargs', '')
@@ -170,7 +179,11 @@ def update_boot_linux(profiledir, profile, label):
     for initramfs in initrds:
         grubcfg += " /initramfs/{0}".format(initramfs)
     grubcfg += "\n}\n"
-    with open(profiledir + '/boot/efi/boot/grub.cfg', 'w') as grubout:
+    # well need to honor grubprefix path if different
+    grubcfgpath = find_glob(profiledir + '/boot', 'grub.cfg')
+    if not grubcfgpath:
+        grubcfgpath = profiledir + '/boot/efi/boot/grub.cfg'
+    with open(grubcfgpath, 'w') as grubout:
         grubout.write(grubcfg)
     ipxeargs = kernelargs
     for initramfs in initrds:
diff --git a/imgutil/imgutil b/imgutil/imgutil
index 0a9d4756..b683b1e5 100644
--- a/imgutil/imgutil
+++ b/imgutil/imgutil
@@ -1378,6 +1378,10 @@ def gather_bootloader(outdir, rootpath='/'):
         grubs = glob.glob(grubs)
         if len(grubs) == 1:
             grubbin = grubs[0]
+    if 'ubuntu' in grubbin:  # we needd to store a hint that this grub has a different hard coded prefix
+        mkdirp(os.path.join(outdir, 'boot/EFI/ubuntu/'))
+        with open(os.path.join(outdir, 'boot/EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg'), 'w') as wo:
+            wo.write('')
     shutil.copyfile(grubbin, os.path.join(outdir, 'boot/efi/boot/grubx64.efi'))
     shutil.copyfile(grubbin, os.path.join(outdir, 'boot/efi/boot/grub.efi'))