[Matt Devo]

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

sorry to hear that someone else's blog summarizing a (much) older set of my instructions left you in an inoperative state. I'm sure we can get you back where you need to be.

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.

this means that you have legacy boot set by default, and that it's trying to boot the internal hard drive with only ChromeOS installed.

Because you ran the ChromeOS recovery, it reinstalled the stock legacy BIOS, which is completely broken and doesn't respond to keyboard input.

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?

power off. Power on, and hit CTRL-D on the white developer boot screen (*before* the legacy BIOS boot screen) to boot ChromeOS. If you don't see the white dev boot screen, it means your display isn't syncing up in time, so just hit CTRL-D a few times before the legacy boot screen. Might take a few tries, but you'll get there.

after you are back in ChromeOS, carefully read, then follow the instructions in the OP of this thread to install OpenELEC in either a standalone or dual boot setup.