2020-12-27, 00:08
Hi, I mostly don't know what I'm doing. I have an old Asus Chromebox CN60. Everything was cool except recently I was no longer able to launch the plex player from chrome so I've started to look for alternatives.
I'm attempting to use the E-Z setup script and everything is mostly going okay until a point.
I first put the system into dev mode. From here I was seeing if I could boot from a USB thumb drive to Ubuntu just to see if I could stream over plex that way. As I'm sure many here are aware the Chromebox won't let me boot from USB. Then I discovered MrChromebox.tech. Great!
I updated the BIOS to the MRChromebox BIOS (RW_LEGACY). I tried Ubuntu but it was pretty slow and buggy so I started looking for alternatives.
Then I noticed the Kodi E-Z setup script and I thought this sounded like just the ticket for a guy like me
So I ran script from the command line. I created a 4GB partition, let the repair happen and then installed LibreELEC alongside my Chrome OS. So far everything was going fine. But now when I boot the system and press CTRL-L I hang at boot. The screen just shows "booting from hard disk..." and it hangs there forever. Chrome still boots up fine and I can see that I'm short 4 GB of storage when I check from Chrome OS.
After this I tried to install GalliumsOS/Ubuntu using the E-Z script but there is an error/warning about needing to use something else so it never installed.
At this point I did a powerwash and tried installing LibreELEC again. I didn't expect this to matter but I figured I'd try. Still the same thing where I press CTRL-L at boot and it hangs.
What do I need to do here? Hopefully I've provided enough information. I'm sure somewhere in the 100s of pages of this thread the answer is there but I haven't found it yet! Thanks for all the hard work that some folks out there have already done just to get me to this point.
I'm attempting to use the E-Z setup script and everything is mostly going okay until a point.
I first put the system into dev mode. From here I was seeing if I could boot from a USB thumb drive to Ubuntu just to see if I could stream over plex that way. As I'm sure many here are aware the Chromebox won't let me boot from USB. Then I discovered MrChromebox.tech. Great!
I updated the BIOS to the MRChromebox BIOS (RW_LEGACY). I tried Ubuntu but it was pretty slow and buggy so I started looking for alternatives.
Then I noticed the Kodi E-Z setup script and I thought this sounded like just the ticket for a guy like me
So I ran script from the command line. I created a 4GB partition, let the repair happen and then installed LibreELEC alongside my Chrome OS. So far everything was going fine. But now when I boot the system and press CTRL-L I hang at boot. The screen just shows "booting from hard disk..." and it hangs there forever. Chrome still boots up fine and I can see that I'm short 4 GB of storage when I check from Chrome OS.
After this I tried to install GalliumsOS/Ubuntu using the E-Z script but there is an error/warning about needing to use something else so it never installed.
At this point I did a powerwash and tried installing LibreELEC again. I didn't expect this to matter but I figured I'd try. Still the same thing where I press CTRL-L at boot and it hangs.
What do I need to do here? Hopefully I've provided enough information. I'm sure somewhere in the 100s of pages of this thread the answer is there but I haven't found it yet! Thanks for all the hard work that some folks out there have already done just to get me to this point.