Getting grub launching the installer

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:45:30 -0500, SV (Sam) wrote:

> F16 grub2  
> barfed and refused to install, when I got around to installing it via PXE.  
> The machine survived a reboot, thanks to the F15 version of grub that was  
> left intact. Removed grub2, installed F16 grub, applied all updates. The  
> reinstalled grub now barfs on reboot with 'Error 16'. Can't go any further,

At this point I would have expected a brief comment on what you've tried
to examine the reason for this error. Error 16 is documented and smells like
you've made GRUB 1 load an incompatible config file, e.g. perhaps the one
from GRUB 2?