OC (7.9) menu won't show install partition after first install reboot

Attempting to install Catalina with OC 7.9 (debug) on a newly formatted (APFS) SSD on an older, recently resurrected GA-Z77X-UD3H / i7.

I can boot OC to picker menu OK. Selection of "Install macOS Catalina (external)" booted into macOS Recovery no problem. In Recovery I used Disk Utility to APFS format the target system SSD, then got through the first phase of Catalina installation OK.

On first installation auto-reboot, the only bootable entry in OC list is my USB installer (plus...

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Author: bobm