Fedora 16 preupgrade with grub2 failure.

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I've don't a number of upgrades from Fedora 14 to 16 with no 
problems, but just had a very bad issue with grub2 not working.

Preupgrade process seemed to go fine, then rebooted.
Screen came up, but was in a very dark gray with slightly lighter 
gray letters that were not very readable, but it appeared to be 
processing fine, and let it run. 

After a while, it had a popup window that said something about a 
bootloader with only an OK button, which I was a guessing was 
that it was going to install the new bootloader, so pressed enter.

Machine rebooted but showed the old grub 0.97 options, which 
only listed the upgrade kernel option and the link to run my g4l 
kernels. The preupgrade option didn't find files, but booting from 
the g4l kernel gave me access, and I could see a grub2 directory 
was there and so was the new kernels. I was eventually able to 
get the 0.97 grub.conf to load the fedora 16 kernel and initramfs 
by manually creating entry, but don't know why the grub2 upgrade 
would have failed, or what the best way to get the grub2 correctly 
installed?

I have the previous 500GB disk with the Fedora 14 before the 
upgrade, so can go back to it if necessary. Had to duplicate the 
disk to a 1TB drive and increase the /boot since the system only 
had a 200MB /boot. 

Hoping there is a simple solution?

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