Hard drive not showing in Recovery Mode despite reformat in HFS+

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Hard drive not showing in Recovery Mode despite reformat in HFS+


Same issue as related in this thread but I already did the following:

  • Re-created a new GPT (GUID) partition table (using GParted, Ubuntu)
  • Created an HFS+ partition specifically for my MacOS
  • Re-created an EFI system partition of +500Mb

And yet, when using the Internet Recovery Mode, two things happen:

  1. The wrong MacOS is being downloaded (Mac OS X Yosemite, instead of Monterrey)
  2. The HFS+ partition created does not show.

What did I miss?

A possible solution would be to reformat the hard drive using Diskutil (Terminal, Recovery Mode) but no idea how to target the correct hard drive.

This what my partition table looks like from GParted:
Hard drive not showing in Recovery Mode despite reformat in HFS+

And this is what my Disk Utility shows on Recovery Mode:
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Things to take into consideration:

  • I used to have an APFS hard drive before. But that must have been replaced by the HFS+ partition.
  • I did not use FileVault or encrypted the disk (have had a lot of problems in using that).