I installed monterey on a usb on my imac 8,1 (2008) version with opencore than when it took me to the boot menu i erased the hard drive before installing it and
Late 2009 iMac, completely wiped hard drive, cannot boot from usb, holding option brings white screen with mouse : r/mac
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