(2020-12-27, 00:08)meganoob Wrote: Hi, I mostly don't know what I'm doing.  I have an old Asus Chromebox CN60.  Everything was cool except recently I was no longer able to launch the plex player from chrome so I've started to look for alternatives.

I'm attempting to use the E-Z setup script and everything is mostly going okay until a point.

I first put the system into dev mode.  From here I was seeing if I could boot from a USB thumb drive to Ubuntu just to see if I could stream over plex that way.  As I'm sure many here are aware the Chromebox won't let me boot from USB.  Then I discovered MrChromebox.tech.  Great!

I updated the BIOS to the MRChromebox BIOS (RW_LEGACY).  I tried Ubuntu but it was pretty slow and buggy so I started looking for alternatives.

Then I noticed the Kodi E-Z setup script and I thought this sounded like just the ticket for a guy like me

So I ran script from the command line.  I created a 4GB partition, let the repair happen and then installed LibreELEC alongside my Chrome OS.  So far everything was going fine.  But now when I boot the system and press CTRL-L I hang at boot.  The screen just shows "booting from hard disk..."  and it hangs there forever.  Chrome still boots up fine and I can see that I'm short 4 GB of storage when I check from Chrome OS.

After this I tried to install GalliumsOS/Ubuntu using the E-Z script but there is an error/warning about needing to use something else so it never installed.

At this point I did a powerwash and tried installing LibreELEC again.  I didn't expect this to matter but I figured I'd try.  Still the same thing where I press CTRL-L at boot and it hangs.

What do I need to do here?  Hopefully I've provided enough information.  I'm sure somewhere in the 100s of pages of this thread the answer is there but I haven't found it yet!  Thanks for all the hard work that some folks out there have already done just to get me to this point.

(2020-12-27, 00:13)meganoob Wrote:

(2020-12-27, 00:08)meganoob Wrote: Hi, I mostly don't know what I'm doing.  I have an old Asus Chromebox CN60.  Everything was cool except recently I was no longer able to launch the plex player from chrome so I've started to look for alternatives.

I'm attempting to use the E-Z setup script and everything is mostly going okay until a point.

I first put the system into dev mode.  From here I was seeing if I could boot from a USB thumb drive to Ubuntu just to see if I could stream over plex that way.  As I'm sure many here are aware the Chromebox won't let me boot from USB.  Then I discovered MrChromebox.tech.  Great!

I updated the BIOS to the MRChromebox BIOS (RW_LEGACY).  I tried Ubuntu but it was pretty slow and buggy so I started looking for alternatives.

Then I noticed the Kodi E-Z setup script and I thought this sounded like just the ticket for a guy like me

So I ran script from the command line.  I created a 4GB partition, let the repair happen and then installed LibreELEC alongside my Chrome OS.  So far everything was going fine.  But now when I boot the system and press CTRL-L I hang at boot.  The screen just shows "booting from hard disk..."  and it hangs there forever.  Chrome still boots up fine and I can see that I'm short 4 GB of storage when I check from Chrome OS.

After this I tried to install GalliumsOS/Ubuntu using the E-Z script but there is an error/warning about needing to use something else so it never installed.

At this point I did a powerwash and tried installing LibreELEC again.  I didn't expect this to matter but I figured I'd try.  Still the same thing where I press CTRL-L at boot and it hangs.

What do I need to do here?  Hopefully I've provided enough information.  I'm sure somewhere in the 100s of pages of this thread the answer is there but I haven't found it yet!  Thanks for all the hard work that some folks out there have already done just to get me to this point.

dang it forgot to add this tag:  /u/MrChromebox

(2020-12-27, 00:08)meganoob Wrote: Hi, I mostly don't know what I'm doing.  I have an old Asus Chromebox CN60.  Everything was cool except recently I was no longer able to launch the plex player from chrome so I've started to look for alternatives.

I'm attempting to use the E-Z setup script and everything is mostly going okay until a point.

I first put the system into dev mode.  From here I was seeing if I could boot from a USB thumb drive to Ubuntu just to see if I could stream over plex that way.  As I'm sure many here are aware the Chromebox won't let me boot from USB.  Then I discovered MrChromebox.tech.  Great!

I updated the BIOS to the MRChromebox BIOS (RW_LEGACY).  I tried Ubuntu but it was pretty slow and buggy so I started looking for alternatives.

Then I noticed the Kodi E-Z setup script and I thought this sounded like just the ticket for a guy like me

So I ran script from the command line.  I created a 4GB partition, let the repair happen and then installed LibreELEC alongside my Chrome OS.  So far everything was going fine.  But now when I boot the system and press CTRL-L I hang at boot.  The screen just shows "booting from hard disk..."  and it hangs there forever.  Chrome still boots up fine and I can see that I'm short 4 GB of storage when I check from Chrome OS.

After this I tried to install GalliumsOS/Ubuntu using the E-Z script but there is an error/warning about needing to use something else so it never installed.

At this point I did a powerwash and tried installing LibreELEC again.  I didn't expect this to matter but I figured I'd try.  Still the same thing where I press CTRL-L at boot and it hangs.

What do I need to do here?  Hopefully I've provided enough information.  I'm sure somewhere in the 100s of pages of this thread the answer is there but I haven't found it yet!  Thanks for all the hard work that some folks out there have already done just to get me to this point.

(2020-12-28, 22:56)meganoob Wrote: I did a little reading and it seems like LibreELEC might not support much in the way of browsers.  Originally I was thinking I'd still have ChromeOS if I needed it but if I go down this path I'd prefer to just run one OS for simplicity.  Is there another good option that is pretty easy to setup on the CN60 that would fulfill my wants?

(2020-12-28, 23:39)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2020-12-28, 22:56)meganoob Wrote: I did a little reading and it seems like LibreELEC might not support much in the way of browsers.  Originally I was thinking I'd still have ChromeOS if I needed it but if I go down this path I'd prefer to just run one OS for simplicity.  Is there another good option that is pretty easy to setup on the CN60 that would fulfill my wants?

after flashing the UEFI firmware, you can run any OS you want on the box without issue for the most part. For a remote-controlled media center, LE is hard to beat. And you can use the Chromium browser add-on as well as others for streaming

(2020-12-29, 02:25)meganoob Wrote: after I flash UEFI will I still be able to get into the Chrome OS so I can run the EZ-setup again?

Quote: Will I also have an opportunity to remove the partition on the HD so I just have the one large partition?

(2020-12-29, 19:04)meganoob Wrote: Thanks for all the help.  After messing with LE/Kodi it was a little more light weight than I'm comfortable with.  Mostly lack of experience on my part.  I tried Ubuntu again but again it was immediately crashing and required some work to get things like Plex or Amazon prime streaming to work.  Then I remembered cloudready which I have successfully used on old PCs in the past.  That seems to work pretty well.  A very similar experience to just using Chrome but now Plex works again.

(2020-12-29, 20:05)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2020-12-29, 19:04)meganoob Wrote: Thanks for all the help.  After messing with LE/Kodi it was a little more light weight than I'm comfortable with.  Mostly lack of experience on my part.  I tried Ubuntu again but again it was immediately crashing and required some work to get things like Plex or Amazon prime streaming to work.  Then I remembered cloudready which I have successfully used on old PCs in the past.  That seems to work pretty well.  A very similar experience to just using Chrome but now Plex works again.

I'm not sure why you'd have issues with Ubuntu, their OOTB config is sane and there aren't any known issues with the 5.x kernel/i915 drivers on Haswell of which I'm aware