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Hi, Sorry to be jumping on the back of this one, but I have a similar scenario. Chromebox worked a treat standalone install for about 8 months now. Just the other night it went into a restart from the stable build it has been on the whole time, then just kept restarting.. It cycles the KODI 14.2 welcome with a curser arrow, then blacks out and cycles back to that again every few seconds, If I do the same and image a USB is this going to pick it up or could it be something more than this. I was very encouraged to see your comment about video output, which im hanging onto at the moment.
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Also thanks for all your hard work, its been highly appreciated and worked seamlessly.. looking forward to trying 6 I am hoping to get a preview if this beta image boots?
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Hi folks
Sorry to hijack an old thread, but I have a similar issue with a brand new HP Chromebox.
I followed the wiki instructions to try to get standalone Openelec to work. Bootable USB created, etc and stock firmware replaced. When I reboot though, I just see the SeaBIOS prompt and it hangs on "Booting from hard disk..." and doesn't do anything. I don't even see a prompt to press escape to get the boot menu, etc. Hitting escape doesn't do anything either - early or late.
I tried with bootable Ubuntu Live and Openelec USBs - no luck with either. Both USBs boot fine in all other PCs.
It's like the Chromebox just can't boot off the USB at all and I can't even force it to do it.
Any help us much appreciated!
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Thread moved to the hardware section.
But have a look in that section anyway, as there are a couple of similar threads there already which may give some assistance anyway.