[Matt Devo]

Hey Matt


So yesterday I updated the firmware to the then current 2.8. I thought it seemed faster when I booted up after that… which I realized it was faster as it didn’t appear to be going to the boot menu screen for the 5 seconds to give you a chance to hit escape to choose a drive.

So, today I noticed you updated the firmware again so I was going to flash the latest version, but I cannot get to the boot menu (I was actually concerned about this happening after the flash yesterday). It instantly goes into openelec. I don’t seem to be able to choose any other drive… it just goes right into openelec then xbmc…. even if i’m holding down the escape key when I turn on the unit.

So did you change that 5 second time out or did something go wrong when I updated to 2.8 yesterday? It seems like it went fine since xbmc works okay, but I guess not? Am I the only one who had this issue? Thanks.

2.9 resolved the issue of not seeing any boot text at all when using HDMI. If that's your issue, you'll need to hit ESC then 2 and time it correctly to boot from your USB stick.

If you are seeing the boot text, just don't have the opportunity to press ESC for the boot menu, it's because your USB stick is not being detected as bootable, so the boot menu timeout (5s) gets skipped and it boots directly to the internal HDD. Try another USB stick, or try re-partitioning as described in the wiki