Grub? Grub2?

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
> Thanks... system responded:
>
<snip output>
>
> which means it was GRUB not GRUB2, and a reinstall should simply be
> "grub-install /dev/sdX"
>
> However the binaries for grub 0.94 are not installed on the system but
> rather the binaries for grub2 (1.99) and yum doesn't seem to want to let
> me install the older version of grub.

That's because grub2 obsoletes grub.  You'll have to uninstall grub2
and manually install the GRUB1 RPM:
i686: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/Packages/grub-0.97-84.fc16.i686.rpm
x86_64: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/grub-0.97-84.fc16.x86_64.rpm

> Last time I tried to upgrade I ran into problems so I'm hesitant to
> upgrade to grub2
>
> I think my problem was /boot and / are on raid 1 partitions, root is on a
> raid partition with a superblock of 1.1, /boot is on a superblock of 0.90
>
> I need to get grub reinstalled on /dev/sdb
>
> Thanks, Jeff

-T.C.