I've been trying to install Ubuntu 12.04, 13.04 and 13.10 onto my mac mini using every tutorial I could find using dd or even a program similar to UNetbootin for mac, and nothing seems to be working.
I only have the mac option for now so I'm not able to make a bootable USB on windows and every time I try to boot it says isolinux.bin
missing or corrupted (except with the other program i don't recall what that error was, it was an early attempt.)
I've now been trying for three weeks and and I have downloaded each Ubuntu many times and checked everyone of then and even installed them in VirtualBox. I'm currently trying to install windows 7 into VirtualBox to start trying from windows, so I'll respond when I do, but why has every attempt of mine failed after checking and rechecking to make sure I do it right, made sure I was dd to the disk and not the partition. Any ideas?
My cdrom doesn't work (kind of) also. It doesn't accept any types of cds besides blanks. so unfortunatly I can't even completely format a new copy of mac without downloading an image from the internet and copying it to a pen drive also. I do have refit, or actually refind which is a continuation of refit because refit isn't maintained anymore. And when I boot and select my flash drive to boot from that's when the screen flashes like any normal boot and throws the error. also I have tried refit. – user162727 24 mins ago
the mac is from 2009, I've even tried installing ubuntu into virtual box and used dd to copy it to the flash drive, also made a backup image via dd of the virtual machine and tried restoring it to my second partition and neither of the two options have worked. giving the same or simalar error.
P.S. I'm only posting this because I've already searched this database and tried everything that I could find and nothing worked.