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What a weird thing, which hardware are you using out of curiosity?
Since you are not booting off of nvme, does it work if you install it as legacy? (e.g. without /boot partition)

Assuming you followed the guide in the wiki normally the grub-install command is:

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grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub

so

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--efi-directory=/boot/efi

and not

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--efi-directory=/boot

If following the guide you created the efi partition and mounted it like so:

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 mkdir /mnt/boot/efi                            (UEFI)
 mount /dev/disk/by-label/ESP /mnt/boot/efi     (UEFI)

So your fat efi partition is at /mnt/boot/efi and not /mnt/boot

Not sure if this could be the problem.  I have in the past mounted the efi partition at /mnt/boot myself, but I know that by default it's /mnt/boot/efi.

Strange indeed. If the NVRAM is being cleared on a reboot that sounds like a hardware issue, not an installation issue. Although weird stuff can happen with software like grub-install or refind-install. I think refind-install in particular expects a /boot/efi directory, if it sees just /boot it will only pretend to work - no idea why, but it's not relevant here anyway I guess. What happens if you try to manually create the entry with efibootmgr? In your case something like:

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efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdb -p 1 -l '\boot\grub\grubx64.efi' -L 'GRUB' -u

Of course you'll need to change the path, partition, and other details if they're different.

I had the same problem in boxes with windows, where its EFI entry takes precedence over grub. Post the output of efibootmgr.

Your problem is indeed weird, with the vanishing EFI boot entries. Can you try installing a non-base s6 ISO like e.g. lxde-s6 from stable branch? I'm curious to see if calamares handles this correctly.

Hello. So I've decided to install Artix on my system after a good while of consideration, with s6.

I'm at the point where everything I would want for it is fully well configured. I have cross referenced a bunch of guides, and triple checked all my commands.

I am at the point of installing the boot manager, which I chose as Grub. You know, the average

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Grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB /dev/sdb

Does anyone have any advice? What could be going wrong?

On my PC :

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lsblk -f
NAME   FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                           
├─sda1                                        
├─sda2                            5,3G    67% /
├─sda3                          134,1G    80% /media/77
├─sda4                           41,4M    58% /boot/efi
└─sda5                                        [SWAP]