i installed an 500gb harddrive and removed the samsung NVME drive and i was able to boot install it and get in to the language selection for the rest of the installation
when the installation is complete i’ll image it onto my ssd
edit:
The installation hung on wifi (I installed BCM94xx) when i entered my key. I force reboot the machine and tried again. I noticed that there are a couple of reboots occuring during the installation (with SATA HDD still) and connected ethernet cable
1st boot (installer, choose external)
2nd reboot cho0se Mojave installer
3rd reboot choose Mojave installer
4th reboot choose Boot FileVault Prebooter from Preboot (automatic selected 2sec timeout)
...
succes! I'm in, next up post installation
running from HDD now.
next time I should check the forum for hardware compatibility
970 evo plus => not stable
What Mobo do you have? I updated the info
www.tonymacx86.com
trying to firmware update it via rufus iso tool
Never mind. I figured it out.
www.tonymacx86.com
Went from firmware 1B2QEXM7 to 2B2QEXM7 => almost success...
tried another install directly on the SSD but without luck, just cloned the hdd onto the SSD and it boots and mostly works.
only major issue is that my USB ports are not working.