Fedora 9 live CD i386 install has grub error 2 under certain circumstances

[stan]

I installed from the Fedora 9 live CD to a boot and root partition.  The 
install went smoothly.  I didn't write to the MBR but instead the boot 
partition.  When I reboot to start the new OS, I use configfile to point 
to the new boot partition and it selects it.  But then it gives an error 
2, invalid directory or file.  There is a bugzilla open for this, 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443289. 

It turns out that Fedora 9 grub uses a default of 256 byte inodes, while 
older versions use 128 byte inodes.  The record points to some 
discussion of this, and suggests some workarounds.  Instead of spending 
a lot of time trying to resolve the problem, I decided to use preupgrade.

If you have a solution I'd love to hear it, but I'm posting this mostly 
as a heads up for anyone with this problem.