[Matt Devo]

I'm having a heck of a time installing Kodi on my new Asus Chromebox. I used the wiki and removed the write protect screw, entered developer mode, and ran the script. I chose the OpenELEC standalone and used a flash drive to back up my firmware and another to use as a bootable install media. First problem is I never got the boot menu, only booting from hard drive. Checked the faq and decided to try a different flash drive. But I don't think I can run the script again, can I? So I try downloading OpenELEC installer. Try multiple flash drives and while I can get it to boot to USB, I can't get the install to work. So I tried downloading the .img and using Win32 Disk Imager. No go either. I can get to the OpenELEC boot screen and select install or run live, but I always get an error. Usually a mounting issue. I don't understand why I'm having such a hard time. I can view files on all my flash drives in Windows 10, but I can't successfully use them for an install. Sometimes the Chromebox just won't recognize them as bootable media. No matter if I use the OpenELEC installer or write the .img, I can't seem to get it to work. I can always view the files written to the flash drive(s) under Windows. And I've tried renaming the volume to OPENELEC, but that doesn't seem to help either. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

writing the image version of the OE installer is the correct way to go (I recommend the 5.95.5 beta). If you get an error booting that, post the error. Using the installer contained within the update version is deprecated (and should be removed). Given that you're having issues with multiple USBs, it is possible that your keyboard is causing some issues with USB init - I'd try another, with properly created OE install media.

FWIW, being able to view the USB stick contents from Windows has no bearing on its ability to function as bootable media.