Difficulty booting HDD with Legacy Boot on UEFI machine

Hi, I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M90p with openSUSE Tumbleweed installed. The machine has Legacy BIOS and no UEFI capability. I decided to physically transfer the HDD to a HP Pavilion 500-010xt desktop which appears to have Legacy and UEFI BIOS boot capability (as per BIOS options). I Attempted to manually select boot device at powerup by pressing f9 and selecting Legacy Boot Source > Hard Drive SATA0 resulting in message 'Error: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed'. I have entered the 'BIOS Setup' and disabled, tried to boot, failed, then reenabled UEFI Boot Sources also. I can boot the operating system with the use of System Rescue CD USB medium. I have then tried using YaST2 bootloader to adjust the menu timeout, saved, powercycled with no luck. Also I have attempted to use the openSUSE Rescue CD and perform a chroot. Once chrooted, I have tried passing 'update-bootloader --reinit' and also grub2-install with both /dev/sda and /dev/sda2 (/boot partition) both giving me a 'No EFI Partition found' message. Could you tell me what to look into further on how to proceed with this problem of booting the operating system? -Regards

-pj composed on 2025-03-26 02:48 (UTC-0500):
Please boot using this method, then remove the USB media, then run parted -l and show us the output. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

On 3/26/25 4:20 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Ok, # parted -l Model: ATA ST3500418AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: pmbr_boot Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 9437kB 8389kB bios_grub 2 9437kB 500GB 500GB lvm, legacy_boot -Thanks
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