(2014-06-10, 19:21)luvdemnoles22 Wrote: Hey Matt I've been following this thread and the other one and I appreciate all the info I've gathered from them. I plan on buying the chromebox this week and installing dual boot Openelec on it. I have a 3.0 3tb WD external hard drive, will this work on it? I have a rather large movie collection and it would be a shame if it doesn't.

(2014-06-10, 15:56)deathtical Wrote: Well... seems to have worked. The only thing I would recommend would be a few more delay options. Right now there is a 1 sec and 30 sec option and it would be nice to have a 10 or 15 sec option. Just something in the middle. Also, it would be kinda nice if an option could be added to OpenELEC/XBMC to reboot to Chrome. Since the box defaults to booting to OpenELEC such an option isn't need to go from Chrome to OpenELEC. But an option in the restart menu to reboot XBMC and have it automatically select Chrome on boot would be cool. I'm not a Linux guy or a programmer so I don't know what is involved with creating such an option but considering what you guys have done so far I imagine this would be a cake walk for you guys. Thanks again for the help and I love this project.

(2014-06-10, 19:43)luvdemnoles22 Wrote: Great! Thanks for the prompt reply. I'm buying the chromebox with an upgradeable 2 x 4gb (8gb) memory sticks. I'll check back on here or the other thread depending if I have any more question. Thank you!

(2014-06-10, 20:02)luvdemnoles22 Wrote: I just thought by adding that I would get even better performance from the box. If you don't think it will it will save me $80

(2014-06-10, 20:08)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2014-06-10, 20:02)luvdemnoles22 Wrote: I just thought by adding that I would get even better performance from the box. If you don't think it will it will save me $80

I do not. However, an extra 2GB stick would be worth it in a dual boot setup, only because of a stock firmware + kernel bug that causes high CPU usage on 2GB setups (due to only having a single channel of RAM?)

(2014-06-10, 19:44)Matt Devo Wrote: The boot selection (UEFI/ChromeOS vs Legacy/OpenELEC) process and boot delay options (1s vs 30s) are limited to what is available in the stock firmware, there's nothing I can do there unfortunately. Anything to change the default boot device (eg, reboot to ChromeOS from OE, when legacy/OE is default) would require changing the boot flags dynamically, and that's not something I really want to tackle. Plus, you'd need hooks in XBMC/OE to choose 'reboot to ChromeOS' vs a normal reboot, so lots of modifications there, and not something that particularly interests me

(2014-06-10, 20:24)deathtical Wrote: But I needs it!

No worries. Was just a thought. I have one of those pesky wireless keyboards that don't work during boot and it's a pain to grab my wired keyboard just to boot into Chrome. Plus my wife said she will strangle me if I buy one more keyboard :o

(2014-06-10, 20:26)Matt Devo Wrote: would be easier just to boot ChromiumOS via USB and just put in the USB stick when you want to boot it. Assuming your wireless keyboard works on the SeaBIOS boot menu

(2014-06-10, 20:33)deathtical Wrote: That's just it. It doesn't seem to work with the modified BIOS. It only seems to work once I am in Chrome or OE. Its a Logitech K400. I think I saw it listed on the wiki as not playing nice at the moment.

Oh well. Thanks

(2014-06-10, 20:45)Matt Devo Wrote: if you used a different legacy BIOS file which booted USB by default, then you could just insert / remove the USB depending on your boot preference, and the KB would be irrelevant

(2014-06-10, 15:57)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2014-06-10, 14:35)elsmandino Wrote: Do you know whether you can use Hola, under ChromeOS, to unlock Netflix from other regions?

dunno, never heard of it, and living in the US, have never needed it.

(2014-06-10, 20:24)deathtical Wrote:

(2014-06-10, 19:44)Matt Devo Wrote: The boot selection (UEFI/ChromeOS vs Legacy/OpenELEC) process and boot delay options (1s vs 30s) are limited to what is available in the stock firmware, there's nothing I can do there unfortunately. Anything to change the default boot device (eg, reboot to ChromeOS from OE, when legacy/OE is default) would require changing the boot flags dynamically, and that's not something I really want to tackle. Plus, you'd need hooks in XBMC/OE to choose 'reboot to ChromeOS' vs a normal reboot, so lots of modifications there, and not something that particularly interests me

But I needs it!

No worries. Was just a thought. I have one of those pesky wireless keyboards that don't work during boot and it's a pain to grab my wired keyboard just to boot into Chrome. Plus my wife said she will strangle me if I buy one more keyboard

(2014-06-11, 17:24)loki131 Wrote: I haven't tried this but there is an OpenELEC addon that reboots to another OS, might be worth a shot!
Linky

EDIT: I looked at it a little more and we need a GRUB menu that I'm not sure we have...