Keyboard not working while trying to install on 2018 MBP

[damonp]

get all the way to:

and cant select to install as keyboard and trackpad not functional…
Help?

[Rexter]

You’re looking at kiosk mode, but StartOS is meant to mostly work headless. That is, without monitor, mouse, and keyboard. If the server is on the LAN, you should be able to configure it from another machine on your LAN. Assuming that your server is connected to your LAN via an ethernet cable, you should be able to just go straight to step 2 in this guide, accessing it from another machine.

Documentation | Start9

[damonp]

that is quite cool, got an “RPC ERROR: Filesystem I/O Error Input/output error (os error 5)” but i’ll reboot and try again

[Rexter]

You may find this conversation useful:

Trouble with "install success" but fails to boot StartOS

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[Rexter]

As of yet, no one has reported getting StartOS working on that machine. So if you do, please let us know about it.

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[damonp]

So, after several failed attempts reformatting the drive and trying to install, i did a full clean install of Ubuntu that worked great, rebooted to start9 boot drive and got the same error also killing my partitions and subsequent ubuntu install… so yeah, im stumped.