[smitbret]

Having trouble with the OpenELEC install and now I can't get past the recovery screen on the Chromebox. Someone on a different forum said that Matt Devo was the guy with the knowledge.

I followed this guide for installing OpenELEC:

http://geekfreely.blogspot.com/2014/...chromebox.html

I got all the way through installation on the HDD. I was all kinds of pumped up and excited, but when I restarted the Chromebox, it just went to the recovery screen and said there was no OS installed.

Tried some different combos of CTRL-L, CTRL-D, etc. with no luck. The Chromebox just kept coming back to the Recovery Screen.. I ended up doing a recovery (via Google's Recovery Tool) and trying the install again from Step 1.5 Set Firmware Boot Flags and never even got to the point where I could install the OS.

Now, when I restart the Chromebox I get a couple of BIOS announcements that quickly scroll through and ask me to press ESC to select the boot device, but it never actually responds when I do. Just goes to a full black screen with the <press ESC to select the boot drive> announcemen with the following:

Booting from Hard Disk
Early console in decompress_kernel
KASLR using RDRAND

Decompressing Linux....Parsing ELF...Performing Relocations..done
Booting the kernel

And then it just sits there with that message. If I stick the USB drive in with the Recovery Image then it posts a bunch more stuff on that page that I don't understand, just looks like more CMD Line info. I have yet to find a CTRL or CTRL-ALT or CTRL-SHFT combo that makes the Chromebox do anything.

If turn it on with a paper clip in the reset hole then I get the normal Chrome OS could not be found screen and asks me to do a recovery. In the upper LH corner is a new three lines on a background that identifies the current firmware. Hitting CTRL-I give me a bit more info of CMD line stuff that I can't decipher. I can run a recovery at this point, or it always looks like it works and the recovery completes but always boots up to this same thing.

I have even done the image download to a different USB drive for the Recovery (bypassing the Recovery Tool) but I get the exact same result every time.

I know the keyboard is being identified and works because I can scroll through the language choices on the OS recovery screen.

How in the world do I get back in to where I can reset the BIOS or just get a working recovery?