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

[Jason Heeris]

On 8 August 2013 23:31, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>      I don't recall where I found the instructions, but I did get
>> rEFIt-0.14.dmg installed on my iMac. Mine is set for dual boot; and I
>> did get it to have Ubuntu as the default OS.

I have a chicken-and-egg problem here though: I *don't* want to dual
boot OSX, so I need a dedicated partition for rEFIt/rEFInd. I can't
install rEFI* from the installation rescue mode because it doesn't
have the HFS tools needed to do so, so I need to install rEF* from
OSX. Thus I need to re-install OSX from recovery, but it won't
re-install because it doesn't like the leading partition set aside for
rEFI*.

The only option I have here is to see if I can somehow get the HFS
tools onto the base system I have installed so I can install rEFI*
from there.

— Jason