From: Mail@JoesLife.org   
      
   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?   
      
   Well, I got success!   
      
   But I'm not doing the same thing as you.  Here's what I accomplished:   
      
      
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