GRUB Hangs With A Blinking Cursor And grub-install Fails

If you boot a Fedora or Red Hat system and find yourself staring at the text GRUB with a blinking cursor, then GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is missing files or damaged.

Grab your operating system installation disk and boot into rescue mode.

Don't bother with grub-install as it is broken and not being fixed.

Enter GRUB's command line interface:

grub

Find GRUB's installation location:

grub> find /grub/stage1

Re-install GRUB -- my location was (hd0,1), yours may be different:

grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

Exit rescue mode:

exit

If GRUB still doesn't load correctly, check the syntax of your grub.conf file. Re-enter rescue mode:

vi /mnt/sysimage/etc/grub.conf