[Matt Devo]

Just got my chromebox and ran the script, it went flawless !
What a huge difference with a raspberry pi!

Great work Matt!


I'm adjusting all the settings and I can't seem to fix 2 things.
1. How do I add a skin to the correct openelec folder? I'm used to accessing the raspberry via windows explorer and just copy over the skin folder to ~\.xbmc\addons etc. but I can't find the .xbmc folder via windows explorer. I can only find a few folder (among which the userdata).
2. When I try airplay with my iPad it just sees openelec as something that can play audio. Is this a known bug or should this work? I know airplay is a real PITA...

1) It's much easier to just reinstall the skins from an add-on repository or zip file that you copy into the downloads folder. OE specifically tries to prevent you from screwing things up yourself

2) I'd check the OpenELEC forums regarding Airplay issues. I don't have an iDevice to test here.

Thanks for taking a look. I tried a couple of more things before replying. I update to the latest legacy BIOS, but no joy, and I updated the HD firmware, but no joy.

I'll describe my latest attempt. I have a Zalman HD enclosure that can present ISOs as a virtual drive. Plugging this into a USB port near the network connector and my target HD (a USB 3.0 500GB WD My Passport hard drive) to a "front" USB port, I booted the Fedora 20 x86_64 full DVD (using the mem=1800M switch) and proceeded with a standard install. The WD hard drive was presented as /dev/sdb and I created a 4GB swap partition and 20GB root partition. Installed the boot loader to /dev/sdb. All went well.

However, upon reboot and removing the Zalman drive, the Legacy boot attempt fails with "cannot read disk", tries a floppy (don't know where thats comping from) and then waits a minute.

I can disconnect the WD hard drive and boot it from my Asus/FX4100 and Gigibyte i7 2600K systems without a problem.

I have also tried a similar attempt with Ubuntu 14.04 (from a live CD ISO) without success.

Is there some SeaBIOS diagnostic info I can look at? Thanks!

Edit:
One more data point ... I installed Fedora 20 in virtually the same way on a drive housed in a NexStar3 2.5" HD enclosure through a USB2.0 connection and it worked! So it appears as if the WD MyPassport USB 3.0 (FW 1.025 - newest) seems to have an incompatibility with the SeaBIOS. Perhaps it is the SES driver that WD likes to include in their firmware. I'll see if I can disable that.

USB 3.0 devices are not supported as boot devices with the stock firmware; the stock firmware is just broken that way. If you use the Coreboot firmware then it should work just fine. You could always install ChromiumOS to the internal HDD and then dual boot between it and Fedora.