I found the solution(more or less).
using the dd command like so "dd if=/my/iso of=/dev/sdx" will not fork for efi but "dd bs=4M if=/my/iso of=/dev/sdx && sync" does.
I found the solution(more or less).
using the dd command like so "dd if=/my/iso of=/dev/sdx" will not fork for efi but "dd bs=4M if=/my/iso of=/dev/sdx && sync" does.