So I have this "invalid arch dependent elf magic" error message. I have no idea why it happened. I have a single-drive dell Latitude laptop PC, with an AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor × 4, which has been happily running Ubuntu 16.04 for about a year now. I did recently insert an SSD card to upload some photos but this is a common thing and I certainly removed the card before powering down.
I got good some hints from the thread: How do I resolve a GRUB: “invalid arch independent ELF magic” error? which helped me work out that I need to run a live CD and enter various various commands in a terminal window.
BUT, I'm a complete novice and don't understand a lot of the jargon. For example, the "live CD" I think I should use is my original Ubuntu 14.04 installation CD - is this right ?
Also I'm not sure I know what they mean by "partition table" - where do I find this for my computer?
Would be grateful for any assistance anyone can provide - preferably an "Idiot's step-by-step" guide.
lsblk
command, which you simply type in a terminal. That way you can find out the Linux device name (e.g./dev/sda2
) of the partitions you need to access with the commands from your linked question.