diff --git a/nebula/downloader.py b/nebula/downloader.py
index 711129a..20f593c 100644
--- a/nebula/downloader.py
+++ b/nebula/downloader.py
@@ -195,7 +195,9 @@ def gen_url(ip, branch, folder, filename, addl, url_template, source="artifactor
                     release_folder = branch.upper()
             url = url_template.format(ip, release_folder, "", "")
             # folder = BUILD_DATE/PROJECT_FOLDER
-            folder = get_newest_folder(listFD(url[:-1])) + "/" + str(folder)
+            folder = (
+                get_newest_folder(listFD(url[:-1])) + "/boot_partition/" + str(folder)
+            )
             return url_template.format(ip, release_folder, folder, filename)
 
 
diff --git a/nebula/manager.py b/nebula/manager.py
index 5526305..c6ea5fa 100644
--- a/nebula/manager.py
+++ b/nebula/manager.py
@@ -753,6 +753,8 @@ def _find_boot_files(self, folder):
         files = os.listdir(folder)
         res = []
         for file in files:
+            if file == "properties.yaml":  # to skip checking of properties.yaml file
+                continue
             path = os.path.join(folder, file)
             filesize = os.stat(path).st_size
             if filesize <= 80:
diff --git a/nebula/network.py b/nebula/network.py
index d6afb9b..5708dc4 100644
--- a/nebula/network.py
+++ b/nebula/network.py
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ def run_diagnostics(self):
 
     def verify_checksum(self, file_path, reference, algo="sha256"):
         if algo == "sha256":
-            ssh_command = 'python -c "import hashlib;'
+            ssh_command = 'python3 -c "import hashlib;'
             ssh_command += f" print(hashlib.sha256(open('{file_path}', 'rb').read()).hexdigest())\""
             result = self.run_ssh_command(
                 command=ssh_command, print_result_to_file=False, show_log=False