[Smobbo]

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?

I can't follow your link, so i don't know what exact instructions you were following.
Try to start from the top of the instruction in this thread. Perhaps you first have to get chromeOS back on it (via ChromiumOS).