Major upgrade failure

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:50:57 -0800
Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> On 12/06/2011 06:24 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> > What argument are you passing to grub2-install?  /dev/root?
> > Does /dev/root exist?  From what I've read and had to do the argument to
> > grub2-install is something like /dev/sda.
> 
> I used this:
> 
> grub2-install /dev/sda
> 
> After it failed, I tried this:
> 
> grub2-install --force /dev/sda
> 
> Both gave the same error, but when I boot, the Grub menu claims to be 
> from 1.99 so maybe it worked.

Weirder and weirder - I'm out of suggestions at this point. It sounds
like your rpm database thinks FC16 packages are installed but FC14 ones
actually are.