After 10.8.5 i get a no entry sign on mac mini late 2012

After doing the10.8.5 update from the ap store i get a no entry sign on mac mini late 2012
my macbook pro (2011) went ok and the 3 Mac pro towers i have used have gone ok
a second mac mini did exactly the same from the 10.8.5 combo updater
a save / format and re-install via target disk mode gives me a no entry sign on boot and booting to the recovery partition does the same.

Hi everyone I have fixed it !!!!!!
I had gotten to the stage that the screwdrivers were on the desk and i was ready to remove the hard drive from the mini to lowlevel format it on a "PC" not an easy task on a silver mac mini.
But............
I used carbon copy cloner (trial version so free !!!!) as part of the cloning process in 10.8 it asks you to create a recovery partition on the destination drive.
so I booted in target disk mode whacked ccc on my mac pro and when selecting a clone of the 10.8.5 system from the mac Pro it said the recovery partition on the mac mini hard drive was corupt and re-created it !!
As if it was magicly re-born my mac mini is now operating as if nothing had ever been wrong!
Does anyone know if there is an app for repairing the recovery partition? may need it on the other mac that "died" doing the 10.8.5 combo updater.

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12C3104
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Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.1: Thu Oct 18 12:13:47 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.20.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 3F93B852-872F-3DF0-BCF8-46D48024C422
Kernel slide:     0x0000000009600000
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--tml

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System uptime in nanoseconds: 114678418411850
last loaded kext at 90915604672689: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEthernetHost       2.3.6 (addr 0xffffff7f8b49a000, size 28672)
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com.apple.nke.webcontentfilter 5
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs     1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch       75.19
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC      1.60
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager        4.1.2f9
com.apple.driver.AGPM   100.12.81
com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler   2.0.6d1
com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim        1.0.0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs    3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver    122
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA       2.3.5fc12
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient        3.5.10
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl       1.1.11
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD4000Graphics       8.0.6
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver       2.3.5fc12
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport      4.1.2f9
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC       1.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC   1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferCapri     8.0.6
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X   7.0.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOUSBAttachedSCSI       1.0.2
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After 10.8.5 i get a no entry sign on mac mini late 2012

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