(2014-05-24, 16:25)Kietunes Wrote: Hi Matt,

Firstly apologies, I've tried everything I think of to sort the issue but I just haven't had any joy.

I followed the instruction in the original post, I made sure I followed the Device Prep section, downloaded & ran the script no problem.

I was then able to install the Coreboot firmware, I didn't backup a copy as I had already done so using the ChromeOS Recovery Tool.

Quote:If I try to recover my firmware using my recovery stick it just hangs on a black screen with a load of text...sometimes it stops at the line;

"[3.315732] drm_kms_helper: panic occurred, switching to text console"

other times it stops at

"[3.348785] ---[ end trace 0a86c12e100920cd]

(2014-05-25, 02:52)brAzzi64 Wrote: Without intentions of hijacking the thread, I'm trying to run XMBC on an Arch Linux on the Chromebox. I been struggling with several issues along the way, hope I had found this thread before ^^. I posted my current issue on a separate thread here.

Did anybody have any experience with it?

I had to wipe out the whole SSD to make my installation work, so I'll definitely give this script a try after I make my arch installation work, hoping to end up with a dualboot system.

Thanks!

(2014-05-25, 02:52)brAzzi64 Wrote: Without intentions of hijacking the thread, I'm trying to run XMBC on an Arch Linux on the Chromebox. I been struggling with several issues along the way, hope I had found this thread before ^^. I posted my current issue on a separate thread here.

Did anybody have any experience with it?

I had to wipe out the whole SSD to make my installation work, so I'll definitely give this script a try after I make my arch installation work, hoping to end up with a dualboot system.

Thanks!

Quote:Install Linux to partition /dev/sda7, and the grub bootloader to /dev/sda.

(2014-05-25, 23:46)brAzzi64 Wrote: Wow, wait. I don't think I completely got it. But first:

I originally wanted to ran a dual boot ChromeOS and minimal Arch with XMB, but had trouble trying to get grub installed on the GPT partitioned drive and decided to start off by getting an Arch running by itself in the entire drive, which I have working now.

What you're saying here is that I could install the Chromium OS "desktop" on my current Arch, along with XBMC? That sounds really interesting. If that's the case, how do you run XMBC? Can you switch between one "desktop" or the other (XBMC/ChromiumOs) on the fly, without restarting the system itself, or how would it work?

(2014-05-26, 00:19)brAzzi64 Wrote: Matt Devo: I see that you mention:

Quote:Install Linux to partition /dev/sda7, and the grub bootloader to /dev/sda.

But while I was trying to install grub, I got something like:

Code:

warn : This GPT partition has no BIOS Boot partition; embedding wont be possible!.
warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup using blocklists.
However blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.
error: if you really want to use blocklists, use --force.

I was not sure if I needed to mark one of the (many) existing GPT partitions as "BIOS Boot partition" and install my new OS on /dev/sda7 or what exactly. Have you tried to install grub along with ChromeOS?

(2014-05-26, 01:19)mikeporetti Wrote: If id like to run openElec ONLY, do i need to install the firmware in the script? (option 4)

i have a problem, i insert a usb and run option 5. When it reboots i get "booting from hard disk" and nothing happens.
I check to see if any data has actually been stored on my usb by putting it in my laptop and nothing is there.

any suggestions?

Quote:Creation of OpenELEC install media is complete.
Upon reboot, press [ESC] at the boot menu prompt,
then select your USB/SD device from the list.

If you have not already done so, run the Standalone setup option before reboot.

Press [Enter] to return to the main menu.

(2014-05-26, 01:40)mikeporetti Wrote: okay ive installed the firmware. and emptied the new contents of the usb(the firmware backup) onto my laptop for safe keeping. Now it wont allow me to get the the command prompt, and thus i cannot reinstall openElec as i had before. Did i miss a step?

(2014-05-26, 01:58)mikeporetti Wrote: hey guys i got it working, just so for the sake of others id like to report what i did. After i installed the core firmware i could not enter the script anymore, so i then simply followed these steps and voila.
http://geekfreely.blogspot.ca/2014/04/openelec-on-asus-chromebox.html
Yay i am so happy!

(2014-05-26, 02:55)denrock Wrote: hey matt, great job with the script. I'm pretty much an amateur with this stuff since mostly what I do is just put different linux distros on a couple of old laptops, but I was able to follow your directions and have openelec/xbmc up and running in about half an hour. So thanks for taking the time to do all the work and share it and answer questions.

Unfortunately, a couple of my usb drives that I keep my media on are only recognized about 90% of the time, a couple of others are only recognized about 50% of the time, and the rest (the majority) aren't recognized at all. So, it's pretty much useless to me as a media center. It's a shame because xbmc runs really great on it! Are there anymore firmware tweaks you're working on that might help this usb problem?

If not, I made the backup of the original firmware per your directions in your original post. But how do I flash it back? Thanks for any help.

(2014-05-26, 03:00)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2014-05-26, 02:55)denrock Wrote: hey matt, great job with the script. I'm pretty much an amateur with this stuff since mostly what I do is just put different linux distros on a couple of old laptops, but I was able to follow your directions and have openelec/xbmc up and running in about half an hour. So thanks for taking the time to do all the work and share it and answer questions.

Unfortunately, a couple of my usb drives that I keep my media on are only recognized about 90% of the time, a couple of others are only recognized about 50% of the time, and the rest (the majority) aren't recognized at all. So, it's pretty much useless to me as a media center. It's a shame because xbmc runs really great on it! Are there anymore firmware tweaks you're working on that might help this usb problem?

If not, I made the backup of the original firmware per your directions in your original post. But how do I flash it back? Thanks for any help.

these USB flash drives aren't recognized by OpenELEC? As long as they are FAT/FAT32/ExFAT they should be readable - not sure about NTFS though.

It's possible to restore your stock firmware by booting up ChromiumOS on USB, then using flashrom to flash the stock firmware file.

I'm unable to reproduce this issue here myself, so somewhat difficult to troubleshoot.