[loki05]

i have done many installs w/no issues, but tonight I received a new asus chromebox and ran the matts awesome script to the T....rebooted, and stuck on a rebooting from hard disk. no esc. so i ctrl alt del and hit esc, and now it reads the usb image...i select the usb, it says something about linux like its going boot to OPENELEC Install (which it has many times before), but NOTHING. I've tried different USBs, even SD cards....but it seems like it wont read the USB/SD image. I tried the recovery route, same thing...it looks like it tries to boot from USB nada.

you can't boot the ChromeOS recovery media with my custom/standalone firmware - it won't boot except with the stock firmware. As for booting the OpenELEC installer, what version are you using? How did you create the installation media? What exactly are you seeing on your screen? And how is the ChromeBox (physically) connected to your display?

Hi Matt - I at first followed the script and used the option of booting via USB (creating) the OpenElec installer. When I rebooted, it wouldn't read the USB, so I then grabbed the Disk Image of the latest Stable Release of OpenElec and mounted it on USB (first i format'd the usb via partition magic). I then slap in on the chromebox, reboot....and I do get the ESC option so I hit it...then select #2 for my USB drive....that's when I get hat weird message about linux kernal ELF something, then it just goes and stays in a black screen.

**THanks for clarifying that the CHROMEOS recovery media won't boot w/the custom/standalone firmware already in place...that makes me feel better about non hardware issue (maybe.). Appreciate any help, i feel like i'm stuck with a brick and not sure why when i've done this many times