I haven't been able to replicate again either I have done i386 and amd64, doing both with a erase-whole-disk, and install along side windows, cycling through the different bios efi options (efi, bios, bios first ..).
About the only thing left to try is installing an older release and then doing a clean install over top -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934614 Title: reinstall of precise breaks grub with invalid arch independent ELF magic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/934614/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs