fresh PathPilot install from recovery USB - bootable device not detected

Does it have an SSD or NVME disk?
Is the NVME a serial ATA or PCI-E?
Do you have another PC?
The idea is to yank the drive and install it on another PC, do the recovery/install, then place back the drive.
Usually this works, although on new PC's it's becomming very agrevating. Microsoft is ploping a lot of money to stop PC's from booting anything, while they are developing their own version of Linux.

It’s an m.2 NVME, pci-e disk. Latest and greatest.

I have a few computers, I may be able to throw it in a laptop however I’m not following how that would help.

I can boot to the recovery usb just fine, it does the “install” copying its image over. That all works successfully.
But then afterwards I can’t boot to the new image (nvme drive).

My understanding is that Linux will install either UEFI or legacy/bios depending which state it’s in at time of install. But this isn’t necessarily “installing” Linux, it’s just copying over a previous image from the recovery usb which was probably based on legacy BIOS.

Which makes sense because when I tried installing it on my VM, it acted the exact same way but the second I changed the setting (since it’s a VM) from UEFI to BIOS it immediately booted up.

With that being said, I can still try in my laptop with the same nvme drive

I've got this resolved somewhat for now but not with UEFI.

As I mentioned, Intel no longer supports Legacy BIOS including the NUC 11. However their previous gen, the NUC 10, it was still supported.

I installed it on a NUC 10 with the same m.2 NVME drive, enabled legacy (disabled UEFI) and it installed and booted up with no issues at all.

I'd still like to get it working with UEFI someday, especially since it is supported by linux Mint.

So if anyone comes across this and is looking to do the same, I can say it installed with absolutely no issues on a NUC 10 from the PathPilot recovery USB, simply have to disable UEFI. I also downloaded and updated to the latest PathPilot 2.9.2 with no issues as well.

Important, I'm only running it in SIM mode right now but I suspect everything should work.

I do not have WiFi working yet with the built in adapter, I'll work on that next.

another quick update, finally have pathpilot (linuxmint really) recognizing my ethernet adapter, which for my NUC10 is an Intel I219-V

I downloaded the driver from Intel directly, version 3.8.4
I had to copy it over via USB but I now have hardwired internet access so I know it is now recognized fully.

Of course with PP, the ethernet adapter will be used to connect to the machine but I'm happy the adapter is at least working.

making progress...