preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 18:23:55 -0500,
  sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Can I just stay with grub1?  I really don't want to mess with
> gparted wizardry on my boot partition. Unless there are some really
> clear instructions on how to move the beginning address. As I
> remember, you shrink by moving the ending address.

I am still using grub1 and it works just fine. Once it gets messed up
it might be a pain to put back again though.