Comment 1 for bug 20184

I have a similar experience, i installed it in the right spot (grub-install
/dev/hda) as has worked previously.

And I simply get "GRUB " on reboot, ctrl+alt+delete is functional so it doesn't
hard lock.

60GB HDD on ide0 master here, 6GB / with boot on it, 6GB windows then a 48GB
home and 512M swap

It's worth noting the first partiton, my 6GB primary is /dev/hda4 as it was
created last, my second partition (second in order on disk) is hda1, then hda2
and hda3.