I'm having trouble with luigi's bios, Can't load any OS can't delete, can't restore ! can't boot to USB-cd-rom or flashdrive , but I can access what's in the pictures

The grub menu usually only comes up the way it did in your pictures when you have a usb drive with a chrome os install on it in. Is that the case? Just trying to find out more info on your issue. If that is the case have you tried installing ubuntu from a flash drive? The stock chrome os [the google version that ships with the cr-48] will not install with the alternate bios on there, but you should be able to install a chromium os image from hexxeh or ubuntu.

Hi, yes that's correct the usb flash drive has the chrome os on it, I had tried installing ubuntu and vista from a external usb cd-rom drive and that didn't work ! , I left the chrome OS on the usb flash drive becasue if I ran into a problem I'd be able to format it again,

Originally Posted by the3dman

The grub menu usually only comes up the way it did in your pictures when you have a usb drive with a chrome os install on it in. Is that the case? Just trying to find out more info on your issue. If that is the case have you tried installing ubuntu from a flash drive? The stock chrome os [the google version that ships with the cr-48] will not install with the alternate bios on there, but you should be able to install a chromium os image from hexxeh or ubuntu.

The CR-48 as far as I know does not boot from an external CD, it only looks for a flash drive or a SD card. You also can not boot from a google provided recovery version of chrome with the alternate bios you have installed, so your only options are to make a Ubuntu or other OS usb flash drive and install from that. Then if you wish to go back to google's version of chrome you will have to flash the stock bios back in ubuntu using hexxeh's instructions and script from his blog, then you should be able to get back into recovery mode and use the stock google recovery. Hope that helps.

I'm having a similar issue to justabrake, however I was able to install Ubuntu 10.04 onto the CR-48 via USB stick. Now I wanted to revert back to stock, as in the original BIOS and CrOS setup. However when I run Luigi and try to flash from custom to stock, it says it appears to have worked and I reboot, but I still have the alternate BIOS. I've ran it many times and I have no luck reverting it back to stock from the custom BIOS.

Any other ideas/suggestions that I can try in order to revert back to a full stock CR-48?

Originally Posted by _TooKay_

I'm having a similar issue to justabrake, however I was able to install Ubuntu 10.04 onto the CR-48 via USB stick. Now I wanted to revert back to stock, as in the original BIOS and CrOS setup. However when I run Luigi and try to flash from custom to stock, it says it appears to have worked and I reboot, but I still have the alternate BIOS. I've ran it many times and I have no luck reverting it back to stock from the custom BIOS.

Any other ideas/suggestions that I can try in order to revert back to a full stock CR-48?

This may be a dumb question but did you pull off the bottom of the laptop so that you can flash? Otherwise it will not flash.

Yea, I forgot to mention that part. I've flashed it (or at least attempted to) with the dev switch on and off, while the cover is off. Still running the custom BIOS though.

Double check the luigi script command you are running and make sure it is typed correctly. I seem to remember someone else having this issue and that was the issue. Or you can try this script in ubuntu: luigi2.txt just rename to luigi.sh and run from the terminal.

Doesn't seem to be working for me. I renamed it and set the permissions, but when I reboot its still the same ol' custom BIOS

Then I am not sure sorry. You may want to try hexxeh on his irc channel and see if he can help more. That is very strange, you could check to make sure there is nothing metal accidently touching the grounding square (where the metal tab from the bottom of the laptop touches) on the board in the laptop that might cause it not to flash also. I literally flashed mine back about a half hour ago so I know his script is working. You do also have flashrom installed in ubuntu correct? Flashrom is needed in order to flash.