Brand new CN65 Chromebox (although old with intel Celeron). Flashed the legacy firmware using option1 in firmware util script. No errors given. Rebooted and it displays top left on black background "SeaBIOS (version rel-1.13.0-16-g3d9cff25-MrChromebox-2020.02.03). Then press Esc for boot menu.
if I tap Esc and select the main internal drive it shows “Rebooting from Hard Disk…” and just hangs. If I select the USB drive with Batocera on it, it displays “Automatic reboot in 1 second…” bottom center of screen and hangs.
I get no rabbit logo on boot.
If I do a hard power+reset I get the white screen with chrome logo top left and the message “the device y ou inserted does not contain Chrome OS”, then nothing after that. Can’t seem to access any shell or anything.
Pretty sure I followed the instructions to the T. Anyone seen this before?
it means your USB isn’t legacy bootable or otherwise failing to boot. One wouldn’t expect booting from the internal disk to work, you don’t have a legacy bootable OS installed there.
why are you expecting one? The coreboot logo splash screen is a feature of the edk2 UEFI payload, not SeaBIOS.
that only happens if you reboot to recovery mode. There is no hard reset on a Chromebox.
Thanks both for the replies. I ran the firmware install again and now I am get Batocera running from the USB drive. Only issue is now it still shows “Automatic Boot in 1 second…” and I have to press ENTER then it does progress to load Batocera, but it pops up a blue window and the only options are Run Batocera (normal) and Run Batocera (verbose). Selecting either loads and runs Batocera fine but of course this is not ideal.
Guessing this is now a Batocera issue so will continue researching it on the Batocera groups.