I’ve been using EOS exclusively since last year and have put it on many different machines and its worked flawlessly (thank you!)
I recently got an 2019 iMac with an Samsung 970 Evo SSD that I have partitioned so that I can dual boot OSX and EOS. the issue I have at the moment is that the EOS installer just can’t see the SSD at all and I don’t understand why.
Is there some sort of protection that I need to disable? If so, does anyone know how?
I’ve also tried Linux Mint and that can’t see the SSD either.
Sometimes you need to format the space you want to write to Fat32 or some readable partition that has available space. There are a lot of guide out there about running Linux on mac’s. Have you followed any of them?
I don’t think that you can “turn off” anything on a mac like you can on a PC.
Some internal SSD’s are weirdly named by Linux, not like “/dev/sda”. A short time ago I received a laptop with 64GB internal SSD and decided to erase Windows not updated in years. When I went to format it I looked for “/dev/sda” and didn’t find it, it was something like “/dev/mmc0blk”. It could have “nvm” in the device name or something else. Maybe your MacOSX is hogging all the space on the SSD, leaving no room for anything else. Otherwise I don’t know what to tell you since I never had a Macintosh.
Thank you for helping me out with this, I’m really greatful.
I ran fdisk -l and I could only see the bootable USB. I will take another look.
I formatted the disk to MS-DOS/Fat32 and it’s still not visible. Sounds silly, but I named it Linux (so I could find it more easily ironically) and I wonder if that’s why. I very much doubt it though.
OpenFirmware is before generation mac intel , it concerns PowerPC architecture , not intel
trouble with Mac intel : if you can boot on USB iso , try to boot on UEFI , not MBR
systems ox are only accepted by boot EFI entrance mac , unless you put grub / systemd inside
Do you still have the mac OS installed on it? If you do then you should try to do the boot camp or whatever to prepare the disk for another OS. Then try to do your installer.