Mac Mini boots to flashing folder

I experience a hdd failure of my mac mini, about a week ago. Ordered a new SSD and replaced it. I then went to a buddies house and put OSX Lion on a thumb drive. Tested it, and it booted on his machine. Now, my mac mini boots to a flashing folder, and I hold the option button upon boot (same sequence I used to test the thumb drive and successfully booted to it) and nothing happens. I just get the same flashing folder and no ability to reference to it. After so long, the system times out and shuts down.
So to conclude,
Mac mini hdd crash. New BLANK ssd installed. Mac mini does not give the option to boot to usb, only flashes gray folder with question mark. Holding option to get boot menu does not work.
Suggestions? I was originally going to burn the OS to a disc, but his machine spit out my blanks.

ownerizer wrote:
I experience a hdd failure of my mac mini, about a week ago. Ordered a new SSD and replaced it. I then went to a buddies house and put OSX Lion on a thumb drive.
If you are refering to something created using Recovery Disk Assistant,
it will only work on the machine it was created on.  If not, how was it
created?  In most cases, it may not work on machines or show up
on a machine that did not have Lion installed natively.

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    28.04.14 09:55:58,874 mDNSResponder[35]: mDNS_Register_internal: ERROR!! Tried to register AuthRecord 00007F931180C560 Susannes-Mac-mini.local. (AAAA) that's already in the list
    28.04.14 09:55:58,874 mDNSResponder[35]: mDNS_Register_internal: ERROR!! Tried to register AuthRecord 00007F931180C9F0 C.C.C.0.7.2.E.F.F.F.E.9.5.1.6.3.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.E.F.ip6.arpa. (PTR) that's already in the list
    28.04.14 09:55:58,874 mDNSResponder[35]: mDNS_Register_internal: ERROR!! Tried to register AuthRecord 00007F931180E160 Susannes-Mac-mini.local. (Addr) that's already in the list
    28.04.14 09:55:58,874 mDNSResponder[35]: mDNS_Register_internal: ERROR!! Tried to register AuthRecord 00007F931180E5F0 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. (PTR) that's already in the list
    28.04.14 09:55:59,615 WindowServer[80]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x0102260e, GL mask 0x00000003, accelerator 0x0000428b, unit 0, caps QEX|MIPMAP, vram 256 MB
    28.04.14 09:55:59,715 WindowServer[80]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x0102260e, GL mask 0x00000003, texture max 8192, viewport max {8192, 8192}, extensions FPRG|NPOT|GLSL|FLOAT
    28.04.14 09:55:59,716 WindowServer[80]: GLCompositor enabled for tile size [256 x 256]
    28.04.14 09:55:59,716 WindowServer[80]: CGXGLInitMipMap: mip map mode is on
    28.04.14 09:55:59,726 WindowServer[80]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
    28.04.14 09:55:59,801 loginwindow[38]: **DMPROXY** Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
    28.04.14 09:56:00,154 configd[54]: network changed: v4(en0+:192.168.178.24) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
    28.04.14 09:56:00,166 configd[54]: setting hostname to "susannes-mini.fritz.box"
    28.04.14 09:56:01,357 awacsd[57]: Exiting
    28.04.14 09:56:02,738 WindowServer[80]: _CGXGLDisplayContextForDisplayDevice: acquired display context (0x7fc9bb513090) - enabling OpenGL
    28.04.14 09:56:03,337 WindowServer[80]: Display 0x764bdc00: Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "SDM-HS74"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
    28.04.14 09:56:03,383 WindowServer[80]: Display 0x764bdc00: Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "SDM-HS74"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
    28.04.14 09:56:03,397 WindowServer[80]: Display 0x764bdc00: Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "SDM-HS74"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
    28.04.14 09:56:03,448 ntpd[106]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec
    28.04.14 09:56:03,489 launchctl[126]: com.apple.findmymacmessenger: Already loaded
    28.04.14 09:56:03,785 com.apple.SecurityServer[25]: Session 100004 created
    28.04.14 09:56:04,311 digest-service[63]: digest-request: uid=0
    28.04.14 09:56:04,312 digest-service[63]: digest-request: init request
    28.04.14 09:56:04,316 digest-service[63]: digest-request: init return domain: MACMINI-270CCC server: SUSANNES-MINI indomain was: <NULL>
    28.04.14 09:56:04,363 digest-service[63]: digest-request: uid=0
    28.04.14 09:56:04,364 digest-service[63]: digest-request: init request
    28.04.14 09:56:04,368 digest-service[63]: digest-request: init return domain: SUSANNES-MINI server: SUSANNES-MINI indomain was: <NULL>
    28.04.14 09:56:04,370 UserEventAgent[127]: Failed to copy info dictionary for bundle /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/alfUIplugin.plugin
    28.04.14 09:56:05,219 loginwindow[38]: Login Window Started Security Agent
    28.04.14 09:56:05,648 SecurityAgent[142]: This is the first run
    28.04.14 09:56:05,649 SecurityAgent[142]: MacBuddy was run = 0
    28.04.14 09:56:05,672 SecurityAgent[142]: User info context values set for susannescherwinski
    28.04.14 09:56:06,399 loginwindow[38]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
    28.04.14 09:56:06,427 loginwindow[38]: USER_PROCESS: 38 console
    28.04.14 09:56:06,000 kernel[0]: AppleKeyStore:Sending lock change 0
    28.04.14 09:56:06,970 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[145]: Background: Aqua: Registering new GUI session.
    28.04.14 09:56:06,996 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[145]: (com.apple.EscrowSecurityAlert) Unknown key: seatbelt-profiles
    28.04.14 09:56:06,998 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[145]: (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
    28.04.14 09:56:07,002 launchctl[147]: com.apple.pluginkit.pkd: Already loaded
    28.04.14 09:56:07,002 launchctl[147]: com.apple.sbd: Already loaded
    28.04.14 09:56:07,029 distnoted[149]: # distnote server agent  absolute time: 479.663146784   civil time: Mon Apr 28 09:56:07 2014   pid: 149 uid: 501  root: no
    28.04.14 09:56:07,530 UserEventAgent[148]: Failed to copy info dictionary for bundle /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/alfUIplugin.plugin
    28.04.14 09:56:07,569 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class AMDRadeonX4000_AMDAccelDevice.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,569 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class AMDRadeonX4000_AMDAccelSharedUserClient.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,569 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class AMDSIVideoContext.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,569 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class Gen6DVDContext.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,569 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IGAccelDevice.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IGAccelSharedUserClient.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IGAccelVideoContextMain.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IGAccelVideoContextMedia.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IGAccelVideoContextVEBox.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IOBluetoothDeviceUserClient.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IOHIDParamUserClient.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IOSurfaceRootUserClient.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the mach service named com.apple.AirPlayXPCHelper.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,570 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named AirPlay.driver requires extending the sandbox for the mach service named com.apple.blued.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,608 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named BluetoothAudioPlugIn.driver requires extending the sandbox for the IOKit user-client class IOBluetoothDeviceUserClient.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,608 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named BluetoothAudioPlugIn.driver requires extending the sandbox for the mach service named com.apple.blued.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,608 com.apple.audio.DriverHelper[161]: The plug-in named BluetoothAudioPlugIn.driver requires extending the sandbox for the mach service named com.apple.bluetoothaudiod.
    28.04.14 09:56:07,732 com.apple.SecurityServer[25]: Session 100006 created
    28.04.14 09:56:07,760 mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputerIndexed"
    28.04.14 09:56:07,793 mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
    28.04.14 09:56:07,820 sharingd[170]: Starting Up...
    28.04.14 09:56:07,954 WindowServer[80]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
    28.04.14 09:56:08,649 WindowServer[80]: Display 0x764bdc00: Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "SDM-HS74"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
    28.04.14 09:56:09,364 com.apple.IconServicesAgent[201]: IconServicesAgent launched.
    28.04.14 09:56:09,577 accountsd[202]: assertion failed: 13C1021: liblaunch.dylib + 25164 [38D1AB2C-A476-385F-8EA8-7AB604CA1F89]: 0x25
    28.04.14 09:56:09,719 com.apple.SecurityServer[25]: Session 100009 created
    28.04.14 09:56:10,587 WiFiKeychainProxy[182]: [NO client logger] <Nov 10 2013 18:30:13> WIFICLOUDSYNC WiFiCloudSyncEngineCreate: created...
    28.04.14 09:56:10,588 WiFiKeychainProxy[182]: [NO client logger] <Nov 10 2013 18:30:13> WIFICLOUDSYNC WiFiCloudSyncEngineRegisterCallbacks: WiFiCloudSyncEngineCallbacks version - 0, bundle id - com.apple.wifi.WiFiKeychainProxy
    28.04.14 09:56:10,847 SystemUIServer[156]: Cannot find executable for CFBundle 0x7fb68855c320 </System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Clock.menu> (not loaded)
    28.04.14 09:56:10,864 SystemUIServer[156]: Cannot find executable for CFBundle 0x7fb68847aab0 </System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Volume.menu> (not loaded)
    28.04.14 09:56:12,097 imagent[189]: [Warning] Services all disappeared, removing all dependent devices
    28.04.14 09:56:12,122 imagent[189]: [Warning] Creating empty account: PlaceholderAccount for service: IMDService (iMessage)
    28.04.14 09:56:12,123 imagent[189]: [Warning] Creating empty account: PlaceholderAccount for service: IMDService (iMessage)
    28.04.14 09:56:12,163 soagent[184]: [Warning] Services all disappeared, removing all dependent devices
    28.04.14 09:56:12,181 soagent[184]: No active accounts, killing soagent in 10 seconds
    28.04.14 09:56:12,184 soagent[184]: No active accounts, killing soagent in 10 seconds
    28.04.14 09:56:12,417 secd[207]:  __EnsureFreshParameters_block_invoke_2 SOSCloudKeychainSynchronizeAndWait: The operation couldn’t be completed. (SyncedDefaults error 1025 - Remote error : No valid account for KVS)
    28.04.14 09:56:12,417 secd[207]:  __talkWithKVS_block_invoke callback error: The operation couldn’t be completed. (SyncedDefaults error 1025 - Remote error : No valid account for KVS)
    28.04.14 09:56:12,639 secd[207]:  SecErrorGetOSStatus unknown error domain: com.apple.security.sos.error for error: The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.security.sos.error error 2 - Public Key not available - failed to register before call)
    28.04.14 09:56:12,639 secd[207]:  securityd_xpc_dictionary_handler WiFiKeychainProx[182] DeviceInCircle The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.security.sos.error error 2 - Public Key not available - failed to register before call)
    28.04.14 09:56:12,944 com.apple.time[148]: Interval maximum value is 946100000 seconds (specified value: 9223372036854775807).
    28.04.14 09:56:22,465 mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
    28.04.14 09:56:23,038 mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
    28.04.14 09:56:23,156 soagent[184]: Killing soagent.
    28.04.14 09:56:23,156 NotificationCenter[181]: SOHelperCenter main connection interrupted
    28.04.14 09:56:23,159 NotificationCenter[181]: SOHelperCenter main connection interrupted
    28.04.14 09:56:23,160 imagent[189]: [Warning] Denying xpc connection, task does not have entitlement: com.apple.private.icfcallserver  (soagent:184)
    28.04.14 09:56:23,160 imagent[189]: [Warning] Denying xpc connection, task does not have entitlement: com.apple.private.icfcallserver  (soagent:184)
    28.04.14 09:56:23,314 mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
    28.04.14 09:56:23,316 mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
    28.04.14 09:56:24,403 parentalcontrolsd[216]: StartObservingFSEvents [849:] -- *** StartObservingFSEvents started event stream
    28.04.14 09:56:33,245 com.apple.time[148]: Interval maximum value is 946100000 seconds (specified value: 9223372036854775807).
    28.04.14 09:56:33,310 soagent[217]: [Warning] Services all disappeared, removing all dependent devices
    28.04.14 09:56:33,318 soagent[217]: No active accounts, killing soagent in 10 seconds
    28.04.14 09:56:33,467 com.apple.dock.extra[212]: No endpoint returned trying to load UnreadCountController.bundle, suspending
    28.04.14 09:56:33,493 soagent[217]: No active accounts, killing soagent in 10 seconds
    28.04.14 09:56:33,494 soagent[217]: No active accounts, killing soagent in 10 seconds
    28.04.14 09:56:44,319 soagent[217]: Killing soagent.
    28.04.14 09:56:44,320 com.apple.dock.extra[212]: SOHelperCenter main connection interrupted
    28.04.14 09:56:44,322 com.apple.dock.extra[212]: SOHelperCenter main connection interrupted
    28.04.14 09:56:44,324 imagent[189]: [Warning] Denying xpc connection, task does not have entitlement: com.apple.private.icfcallserver  (soagent:217)
    28.04.14 09:56:44,324 imagent[189]: [Warning] Denying xpc connection, task does not have entitlement: com.apple.private.icfcallserver  (soagent:217)
    28.04.14 10:00:56,532 WindowServer[80]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
    28.04.14 10:00:57,256 WindowServer[80]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Finder" after 1.72 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
    28.04.14 10:00:59,103 com.apple.IconServicesAgent[201]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x42d] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x1f3] - extension: docx, UTI: org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document, fileType: WXBN.
    28.04.14 10:00:59,104 quicklookd[227]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0x203] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x103] - extension: docx, UTI: org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document, fileType: WXBN request size:64 scale: 1
    28.04.14 10:00:59,143 com.apple.IconServicesAgent[201]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x3df] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x2e5] - extension: pdf, UTI: com.adobe.pdf, fileType: ????.
    28.04.14 10:00:59,144 quicklookd[227]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0x403] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x303] - extension: pdf, UTI: com.adobe.pdf, fileType: ???? request size:64 scale: 1
    28.04.14 10:00:59,208 com.apple.IconServicesAgent[201]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x1f5] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x42f] - extension: mp3, UTI: public.mp3, fileType: MPG3.
    28.04.14 10:00:59,208 quicklookd[227]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0x603] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x503] - extension: mp3, UTI: public.mp3, fileType: MPG3 request size:64 scale: 1
    28.04.14 10:01:03,377 mds[34]: (Normal) Volume: volume:0x7f9c5c863000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/firmwaresyncd.S2FNIL
    28.04.14 10:01:17,708 System Events[269]: .sdef warning for part of complex type 'any | number | boolean | date | list | record | text | data' used in suite 'Property List Suite': 'data' is not a valid type name.
    28.04.14 10:01:17,709 System Events[269]: .sdef warning for type 'text | missing value | any' attribute 'uniqueID' of class 'XML element' in suite 'XML Suite': AppleScript ID references may not work for this property because its type is not NSNumber- or NSString-derived.
    28.04.14 10:01:24,175 Safari[219]: ERROR: ForceShrinkPersistentStore_NoLock -delete- We do not have a BLOB or TEXT column type.  Instead, we have 5.

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              com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring          (8.0)
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              [System] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link
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