It is strange, that this USB key has 2 partitions:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1888kB 5759kB 3871kB primary esp, type=ef
2 5759kB 4487MB 4481MB primary boot, hidden, type=17
Then opened in GParted:
First partition is FAT16.
Second partition is unknown type, and has label
"openSUSE-Leap-42.1-DVD-x86_64023"
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Then mounted first partition:
> ls -R
.:
EFI .packages.grub2-efi
./EFI:
BOOT
./EFI/BOOT:
bootx64.efi grub.cfg grub.efi locale MokManager.efi
./EFI/BOOT/locale:
en.mo
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So there is no /boot/x86_64/loader/linux file in first partition.
But this file exist in second partition.
In second partition also exist same EFI directory.