Turns out it was a bad idea to format the drive on my computer and sticking it into a chassis that didn't support it in the first place. It sounds idiotic in hindsight but to a starving student it was ...
I've neve used them personally but I know parted can create them and it looks like the kernel option is CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION which is on by default in Debian, I don't have an Ubuntu machine to check ...
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