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   The Real Bev to All   
   Re: Persistent Liveslak 15   
   05 Mar 25 13:55:47   
   
   From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   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?   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
       Children, your performance was miserable. Your parents will   
       all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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