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

[Jason Heeris]

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