"白い熊@相撲道" <gnewsense-dev_nongnu....@sumou.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Gnewsense to a late 2013 Macbook Air. Can't
> complete text mode, or GUI mode, since the keyboard becomes dead after
> selecting the entry in the splash menu. I.e. I can scroll the options
> in the boot splash menu, after hitting enter when the first dialog is
> brought up the keyboard doesn't react to any presses. 

Are you about to change to one of the virtual consoles? Try pressing alt f3.


> Incidentally, the keyboard works fine if I boot into the Live session,
> so could do the install from there... However I can't figure out how
> to start in expert mode in the Live session, and I need expert as you
> MUST specify that GRUB be installed to /dev/sda3 and NOT /dev/sda as
> otherwise the whole Macbook gets messed up - been there. 

I am not aware on a way to use the live installer in expert mode unfortunately.

> Please, someone help me... I don't want to settle for Ubuntu... 

I feel I should note here there ate other free distributions you can try before 
that point.
Thanks,
Kk

Hi,

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