Are the characters on the screen readable?  I had this problem too, along with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your grub.conf

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@genestate.com> wrote:
Matt Harrison wrote:
Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with splash) as you would expect.

Sorry that should read:

ie the normal menu but without splash