Quote Originally Posted by navmanl200 View Post
The way the first post reads, it looks like you did the 'hard restart' as part of the process of setting up the box, not for moving it to a friends house, had you said "then moved the box back to a friends house and powered it up, and it's now stuck in a loop" might have made more sense, but the way I read it was that you had hard restarted the box as part of the setup, which is I think why Rob was asking what you had done that for !
Actually when setting the boxes up e.g. flashing it is suggested that you power of the box after flashing the bootloader and the main flash.