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

[Jason Heeris]

On 8 August 2013 16:52, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
>
> You forgot to mention what the error is you are getting when booting.

Ah, so I did. That's probably because in the usual Mac style, there is
no *error* per se. When I boot I just see a pleasing grey background,
in the centre of which is the slowly blinking image of a folder with a
question mark.

Like this: https://blog.hep-cat.de/pics/flashing-question-mark.png

>From what I can tell, this indicates that the Mac Mini couldn't find a
bootable drive. (I don't quite know what's doing the "finding", which
may be why I'm unable to fix it.)

> Also useful might be to show your /etc/fstab file, and to check what type of filesystems your partitions are.

Here's fstab (sorry if it wraps, I'm stuck using GMail right now):

----
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=fafe48ca-13e2-4064-8572-c239a248be3d /               ext4
errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=00B3-643F  /boot/efi       vfat    defaults        0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=73ddc0a8-96f3-456d-a6c0-9553062ce33b none            swap    sw
           0       0
----

Here's parted's output (parted /dev/sda print):

----
Model: ATA APPLE HDD HTS545 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  99.6MB  98.6MB  fat32                 boot
 2      99.6MB  496GB   496GB   ext4
 3      496GB   500GB   4196MB  linux-swap(v1)
----

In the time since the last email, I actually restored OSX, checked
that it booted normally (it did) and re-ran the Ubuntu Server
installation. This time, I made sure to *skip* the GRUB installation
step. Alas, it didn't help, I still get the aesthetically pleasing
grey folder.

Cheers,
Jason
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