In order to successfully get to the CentOS installer I did the following things: by using balenaEtcher) I was greeted by a black screen.
When using the usual methods of creating a bootable USB drive (e.g. Tested using CentOS Stream 8 on a Late 2014 Mac Mini. In this snippet I gather my findings and present a way to successfully install CentOS on a Mac. I repeatedly had issues even getting the installation media to boot. Installing recent CentOS versions on Macs is not as straight forward as I wish it to be.
