Fedora 15->16 grub issue (not the usual one)

[canterburytale]

I have Fedora 15 (x86 64 bit) and Windows 7 running on dual boot system. Although sharing a mbr, the installations reside on different physical disks. Because I was NOT smart and did not preupgrade, I simply popped in the burned iso and selected the upgrade option. When It asked me if I wanted to update grub, I said "no" since grub seemed to be working fine and why mess with something that works (I did not know grub2 was part of the upgrade). Everything installs fine. When I reboot, the old grub screen comes up and .. only shows me the option to boot into Windows. I did some digging around and it seems most people have the opposite issue (new kernel but no Windows boot option). I booted into rescue mode and looked at the boot partition. In the grub directory, I have a brand new grub.conf with only a Windows option and in grub2.conf I have an empty file. Now, the question is how do I repair grub.conf so it boots the new kernel? Do I have to reinstall again and this time select update grub? If so, how do I make sure it does not nuke the Windows option.

[jpollard]

You should be able to do a "blkid" and identify all partitions.

If you know which partition you installed to (and you should be able to mount that partition to verify), then you should be able to add grub entries to complete the installation.

The boot filesystem should have the new kernel (should have the most recent date), and that would identify both kernel and initrd.

Also check the etc directory of the root filesystem - there may be a backup copy of the old grub.conf file there.