Grub menu blank after fresh install of Fedora 14

[jlynker]

Searched and found a number of blank screen posts, due to graphical driver.. but I think this is different. I've tried to install Fedora 14 over Fedora 12 and first, using the Live CD, after upgrading and rebooting, my Grub menu was blank.

So I tried a Live-CD fresh install - same thing. Then I tried a DVD install - same thing. Baffling.

When I reboot to rescue mode and chroot /mnt/sysimage; cd /boot/grub; more menu.lst - it shows a correct entry for initrd and kernel. Selecting the grub options 'b', 'e', 'a' or 'd', the menu just returns, still blank.

I've fought with Fedora installations since F8... but this has been the worst of them.

Should I give it up and find another distro? If so, suggestions?
Is this an easy problem to solve?
Is my search terms just not working for me?

Thanks,
John

[JamesNZ]

What does grub.conf say?

[David Batson]

Perhaps related. I was having some problems with the internal display on my laptop, so I plugged in an external widescreen LCD display. GRUB will not display at all (although it did display on the built in display previously), but after the menu times out Fedora boots and the display is fine. On the same laptop booting a different hard drive under the same conditions, Mandriva's GRUB menu shows up fine.