(2015-04-19, 17:43)Twixs Wrote: I'm having some serious trouble with this and I think I done messed up pretty badly and am pleading for help!~

I was following the instructions line by line...when I finally got to the install Kodi screen for a single boot Asus Chromebox. When I hit enter on Run Installer, however, it just kicked me back to the select boot screen or somewhere before that. This is where things started unraveling. Since it kept doing that, I figured I'd try the update firmware option on the script...except I hit the wrong one. I went with the dual boot one. Once that was done installing I couldn't get back to the command prompt to try anything else. There would be 2 or 3 black lines on top of the recovery screen saying something about SeaBIOS (I think) and being read only.

Then I read that you can get into the command prompt through the browser...so I tried some of that and got to do the standalone firmware update, I think I might have messed with the settings somehow because now I can't even get to the recovery screen. It just goes straight to booting from the HDD unless I have a USB drive in which case it asks me which to boot. I can't even get to the recovery screen if I push the recovery button with a paperclip.

I've installed the ChromeOS recovery image on a thumb drive and if I try to boot from it, it basically crashes to a long line of file executions and the word "panic" every so often. If I let it boot to the HDD, ChromeOS starts to load it but then it gets in an infinite loop of restarts before ChromeOS fully boots.

The furthest I've gotten with ChromeOS booting on it's own recently was after inputting my google username/password. It just sat there for 15 minutes 'thinking' about what to do next.

The SeaBIOS string I have is rel-1.8.0-11-g647b459-20150226

Have I destroyed my box? Any help would be much much appreciated as my new home theater is going to pretty much revolve around this setup.

If there's any other information I need to provide let me know, I think I got all of it from the front page...

(2015-04-19, 18:12)jwegman Wrote: Good day Matt,

Just some feedback In the event that no one else has mentioned this; when running on the new Pixel 2015 (Broadwell), the script will automatically flash a Legacy BIOS despite this device already having one. Although I didn't leave that new Legacy BIOS in place for long, I don't think it worked correctly on the Pixel 2015...

google@pixel:~$ sudo dmidecode | grep -m1 "Product Name:" | awk '{print $3}'
Samus

By the by, the Pixel 2015 LS makes a fairly decent Kodi box

Regards,
Jake

(2015-04-20, 00:11)HarryMohan Wrote: Matt, thank you. I tried your suggestion again, this time it worked. THANK YOU....Am i limited to skins or any skin would work?

(2015-04-20, 05:02)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2015-04-19, 17:43)Twixs Wrote: I'm having some serious trouble with this and I think I done messed up pretty badly and am pleading for help!~

I was following the instructions line by line...when I finally got to the install Kodi screen for a single boot Asus Chromebox. When I hit enter on Run Installer, however, it just kicked me back to the select boot screen or somewhere before that. This is where things started unraveling. Since it kept doing that, I figured I'd try the update firmware option on the script...except I hit the wrong one. I went with the dual boot one. Once that was done installing I couldn't get back to the command prompt to try anything else. There would be 2 or 3 black lines on top of the recovery screen saying something about SeaBIOS (I think) and being read only.

Then I read that you can get into the command prompt through the browser...so I tried some of that and got to do the standalone firmware update, I think I might have messed with the settings somehow because now I can't even get to the recovery screen. It just goes straight to booting from the HDD unless I have a USB drive in which case it asks me which to boot. I can't even get to the recovery screen if I push the recovery button with a paperclip.

I've installed the ChromeOS recovery image on a thumb drive and if I try to boot from it, it basically crashes to a long line of file executions and the word "panic" every so often. If I let it boot to the HDD, ChromeOS starts to load it but then it gets in an infinite loop of restarts before ChromeOS fully boots.

The furthest I've gotten with ChromeOS booting on it's own recently was after inputting my google username/password. It just sat there for 15 minutes 'thinking' about what to do next.

The SeaBIOS string I have is rel-1.8.0-11-g647b459-20150226

Have I destroyed my box? Any help would be much much appreciated as my new home theater is going to pretty much revolve around this setup.

If there's any other information I need to provide let me know, I think I got all of it from the front page...

Jesus, you're lucky the thing boots at all honestly. When it comes to firmware, it's really best not to go off-book when things don't work as expected - that's how you end up with a bricked device.

let's start fresh - power on the device with the recovery button depressed, then insert the recovery media and let it do it's thing. Then, follow the instructions from the step where you download/run the script for whichever setup you want (standalone or dual boot).

(2015-04-20, 06:05)Twixs Wrote: The recovery button doesn't even do anything anymore. By the time anything is even displayed on the screen it either says press escape for boot menu (with USB media attached) or "Booting the Kernel" or something. It's not even getting to ChromeOS anymore. Just the Chrome screen then reboots itself infinitely.

I think I've learned an expensive lesson.

(2015-04-20, 06:40)nickr Wrote: I have been following this thread out of interest. Chromeboxes are $300 here and some people are even trying to flog them on a local auction site for $400.

However I just found two "barely used" Asus's for $220 each, so now I am here out of more than "interest". Wooohoo.

(2015-04-20, 07:47)Gloucester Wrote: First of all, thanks for the fantastic guide - set up my ASUS Chromebox with OpenElec/Kodi last night in under half an hour! Just have one question on WOL functionality that may be useful to others as well.

I have an external USB HDD where I plan to store my media. That disk is shared on the network, and is getting accessed by a Sickbeard instance which writes to it when new content becomes available. Is it possible to leave the Chromebox in Suspend mode, and have the network share wake it up when files need to get copied? I naively assumed this is straightforward to do using Wake on LAN, but no luck so far. Any ideas?

PS Wake-on LAN works fine from the mobile app.

(2015-04-20, 08:51)Matt Devo Wrote: simply accessing a network share doesn't send a WoL packet - it needs to be explicitly sent from whatever program needs access to the network share. A better way IMO is to have the external USB HDD connected to a machine that's always on (or your router, if supported) and have the ChromeBox/Kodi access the network share.

(2015-04-21, 04:40)chromebox_newb Wrote: Hi All,

Just got my Asus Chromebox, and wanted to try the Openelec/Chrome OS dual boot set up. I've read many instruction but I can't seem to get into Develop Mode. I know I need to use a paperclip, hold the recovery switch, press the power button. I get the "chrome os is missing or damaged.... " screen. Pressing "control d" does nothing! I've tried with a wired and wireless keyboard. I know it detects the keyboard because I can switch between different languages. Any help will be appreciated here..

Thanks!

(2015-04-21, 04:43)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2015-04-21, 04:40)chromebox_newb Wrote: Hi All,

Just got my Asus Chromebox, and wanted to try the Openelec/Chrome OS dual boot set up. I've read many instruction but I can't seem to get into Develop Mode. I know I need to use a paperclip, hold the recovery switch, press the power button. I get the "chrome os is missing or damaged.... " screen. Pressing "control d" does nothing! I've tried with a wired and wireless keyboard. I know it detects the keyboard because I can switch between different languages. Any help will be appreciated here..

Thanks!

the problem is your keyboard. The fact that you can switch languages doesn't mean anything - the OS is fully loaded at that point (drivers initialized, etc) whereas the recovery screen is a function of the firmware (BIOS), and only does limited peripheral init.

(2015-04-21, 04:49)chromebox_newb Wrote: I can switch languages in the recovery screen. If you press the keyboard arrow left and right in the recovery screen the "chrome os is missing or damaged..." message changes languages. This is why I can't understand why the control d isn't working.

(2015-04-21, 19:50)kosta88 Wrote: Hello,
Just started the procedure and decided to go with the custom coreboot firmware.
Did the steps of removing the screw and entering developer mode. Then booted into ChromeOS and went to cmd..
Plugged in a usb stick into one of the ports...
So, pressed 5, enter...y... and it simply returned to the choice menu.
And now it's sitting here dumb and doing nothing.
I tried 5 enter again, shown me nothing.

I am afraid to reboot, not sure what will happen.

This is ASUS Chromebox, Celeron CPU.

Please help!