Cannot boot new base Ubuntu Server 13.04 installation on Mac Mini 6, 1

[pete smout]

On 08/08/13 11:25, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 8 August 2013 18:10, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
>> The only solution seems to be to create a HFS+ partition on the disk, with
>> either a full OSX on it, or something smaller like rEFIt boot menu.
> 
> It seems that the disk utility in the OSX recovery image can't handle
> partitions less than about 1GB, and in fact refuses to format the rest
> of the disk when there's one on there. So the instruction to create a
> 20MB partition for rEFIt doesn't really hold any more. I'll play round
> with different partitions (and partitioning tools) until I find a
> combination that works.
> 
> What puzzles me is why I can quite easily boot from the USB installer
> in either mode, but not the hard drive itself.
> 
> There's instructions here to get the Apple bootloader to work with
> Ubuntu, but again, they're old and assume dual booting (in some
> places, then forget about it in other places):
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting#Using_Apple_bootloader_itself_.28safest_option.29
> 
> The instructions about where to put the grub EFI files don't really
> give enough detail, and I'm not sure they'll cope with upgrades.
> 
> I'll keep looking I suppose.
> 
> — Jason
> 
Hi,

When I installed Lucid (10-04) on a old mac some time ago, I had to use
the alternate install iso, as it was the only one mac could use!?
Although the normal live cd of the time would boot, it would not
install, I wonder if things have moved on......?

Pete