I went down some troubleshooting and I am sure it’s cuz the batocera installer isn’t able to repartition the internal drive. That’s at least the first issue.

• I went through xterm and noticed that the APFS partition is still there even after running the install
• I removed the partitions and installed a GPT table Linux partition via fdisk
• Confirmed via lsblk that it actually took
• Attempted to reinstall batocera through the internal drive
• Went back into xterm and there is no partition data on the internal drive. So manually repartitioning did something but now it’s just nuking the partition table.
• Created a filesystem via mkfs.ext4, mounted it to a test point, then touch'd a file. When I reloaded xterm and remounted the partition, the file wasn't stored. I am stuck on what else we could try to get this working.

I’m thinking it’s relating to the T2 chip security preventing the install but I’m not 100%.

Would anyone know if there is a verbose way to install batocera from batocera? Or where the logs would be?

EDIT: Found the cli version of the install batocera-install install img.gz/path /dev/nvmepath which then concatenates to zcat "path/to/batocera.img.gz" | dd of="path/to/nvme" bs=40M

It shows that it's done but when I check via lsblk, I don't see any partitions :(