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   On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 13:55:47 -0800, The Real Bev wrote:   
      
   > Nothing works...   
   >   
   > I am trying to install 15.0 on a USB stick that is to be used to boot   
   > into system which requires UEFI boot. Before the install, I prepared the   
   > USB stick with three gdisk partitions:   
   >   
   > P1:500 mb EFI system file type ef00 P2:3GB BIOS boot system type ef02   
   > P3:111Gb linux file system type 8300   
   >   
   > The target system is a lenovo ideapad, on which I booted into the 15.0   
   > install USB.   
   > The target USB was also plugged into the laptop.   
   >   
   > The target USB came up as /dev/sda with the three partitions, and the   
   > USB install came up. After booting into the install I ran setup and set   
   > the target to /sda3.   
   >   
   > I chose full install and let the process run.   
   >   
   > When it came to a boot stick I declined.   
   > When it came to installing lilo I declined.   
   >   
   > I set up for Network Manager.   
   > I chose the time zone   
   >   
   > Upon completion I chose EXIT from the install menu and dropped into a   
   > shell.   
   >   
   > mount revealed that sda1 was mounted as was sda3.   
   >   
   > I did chroot /mnt /bin/bash   
   >   
   > then:   
   > source /etc/profile grub-install --target=x86_64-efi   
   > --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub   
   >   
   > I got back: this doesn't look like an EFI directory to me and the   
   > install failed.   
   >   
   > I went ahead with the grub-mkconfig anyhow.   
   >   
   > I then exited the install and removed both USB sticks from the laptop.   
   >   
   > I took the two sticks and inserted them into another computer.   
   >   
   > I mounted the install USB and the target USB.   
   > I verified that the install USB had /EFI.   
   > I repeated the post install procedure and, again,   
   > got the "doesn't look like an EFI directory to me.   
   >   
   > The only thing I can think that went wrong is the original install did   
   > not copy over the EFI material.   
   > The install recognized that there was an EFI partition on the target   
   > USB, but I never saw a message that it was formatted vfat, or that   
   > anything was written to it.   
   >   
   > What step(s) am I missing in the install?  Is there anything I can do to   
   > recover when I have the fully-installed USB stick without going through   
   > the entire install process again?   
      
   Hello again,   
      
   I've never used UEFI, but just now I did some looking online.  Perhaps this   
   article contains the answer you are looking for?:   
      
      https://superuser.com/questions/764799/how-to-create-an-efi-system-partition   
      
      
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