On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:42:04 -0500
o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> Resultant is :
> grub>
>
> grub> ls
> lists some 18 partitions none of which indicate the msdos needed for
> efi (proc), (hdo), (hd0,gpt15) (hd0, gpt 14 to 1) (hd1)
>
> Tried booting using the rEFInd disk and everything is working (select
> the correct partition and then everything works).
> Ran through the destructions again (just in case) with everything
> looking as indicated.
> Still not bootable directly.
>
> Looked at some pages re: booting from grub directly but somehow I was
> supposed to have this msdos partition (which I don't).
> So I'm still at least somewhat lost - - - I can get the system to
> boot but only using the long way around.
>
> Ideas/suggestions ?????

Questions actually.
Did you previously boot from an efi boot?
YMMV, but I have hardware that will not boot from an efi partition so
instead of install grub-efi, I need to install grub-pc.

In my recent experience (multiple attempts on new hardware), I had to
use gdisk(?) to create the partitions, for an efi, then gptX(data(/))
and gpty(swap), which the install(IME) does automatically if you let it
run. The first partition is a smallish ms-dos/efi partition. So unless
you can create(carve out) a ms-dos/efi partition, you might be stuck.
Traditionally it was at the front to over come initial OS hardware
limitations, but I do not know if that applies in current times for
linux. Perhaps you can shrink the last partition to squeeze one in.