diff --git a/payloads/external/LinuxBoot/Kconfig b/payloads/external/LinuxBoot/Kconfig
index b4bb05333a..edd4779306 100644
--- a/payloads/external/LinuxBoot/Kconfig
+++ b/payloads/external/LinuxBoot/Kconfig
@@ -258,6 +258,61 @@ config LINUXBOOT_UROOT_COMMANDS
 	  List of additional modules to include,
 	  separated by space. (default "boot coreboot-app")
 
+if LINUXBOOT_UROOT_MAIN
+
+choice
+	prompt "Choose a specific bootloader"
+	default SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_NONE
+	help
+	  Specify a bootloader which starts after u-root init. It will be a symlink
+	  to /bin/uinit. Default: None
+
+config SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_NONE
+	bool "none"
+	help
+	  Leave u-root to decide which bootloaders to load first after init, if
+	  any at all. Most likely u-root will start into the defined u-root shell.
+
+config SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_SYSTEMBOOT
+	bool "systemboot"
+	help
+	  If systemboot has been used as a bootloader wrapper in the past,
+	  enable this option. It will invoke -uinitcmd=systemboot and result in
+	  a BIOS/UEFI BDS boot behavior.
+
+config SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_BOOT2
+	bool "boot2"
+
+config SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_PXEBOOT
+	bool "pxeboot"
+
+config SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_STBOOT
+	bool "stboot"
+
+config SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_CUSTOM
+	bool "custom"
+
+endchoice
+
+config SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_CUSTOM_CMD
+	string "Specify a custom program to start"
+	depends on SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_CUSTOM
+	help
+	  This option will symlink the input to /bin/unit which will set it as the
+	  first boot program after the u-root init. Program flags are not
+	  symlinkable.
+
+config LINUXBOOT_UROOT_UINITCMD
+	string
+	default "" if SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_NONE
+	default "systemboot" if SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_SYSTEMBOOT
+	default "boot2" if SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_BOOT2
+	default "pxeboot" if SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_PXEBOOT
+	default "stboot" if SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_STBOOT
+	default SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_CUSTOM_CMD if SPECIFIC_BOOTLOADER_CUSTOM
+
+endif #LINUXBOOT_UROOT_MAIN
+
 endif #LINUXBOOT_UROOT
 
 endif #LINUXBOOT_BUILD_INITRAMFS
diff --git a/payloads/external/LinuxBoot/targets/u-root.mk b/payloads/external/LinuxBoot/targets/u-root.mk
index 7e5444141d..e673aabf11 100644
--- a/payloads/external/LinuxBoot/targets/u-root.mk
+++ b/payloads/external/LinuxBoot/targets/u-root.mk
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ go_version_minor=$(shell echo $(go_version) |  sed -nr 's/^([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.?
 
 uroot_args+=-build=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_FORMAT)
 uroot_args+=-initcmd $(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_INITCMD)
+uroot_args+=-uinitcmd=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_UINITCMD)
 uroot_args+=-defaultsh $(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_SHELL)
 ifneq (CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_FILES,)
 uroot_args+=$(foreach file,$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_FILES),-files $(PWD)/$(file))
diff --git a/payloads/external/Makefile.inc b/payloads/external/Makefile.inc
index 38e7dad0c6..7bdf9b094e 100644
--- a/payloads/external/Makefile.inc
+++ b/payloads/external/Makefile.inc
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ linuxboot:
 		CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_VERSION=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_VERSION) \
 		CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_FORMAT=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_FORMAT) \
 		CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_INITCMD=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_INITCMD) \
+		CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_UINITCMD=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_UINITCMD)\
 		CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_SHELL=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_SHELL) \
 		CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_COMMANDS=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_COMMANDS) \
 		CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_FILES=$(CONFIG_LINUXBOOT_UROOT_FILES) \