After install and first boot, Grub shows only flashing cursor

Hi so I recently successfully installed the archlinux image on my netbook. after finishing the config files and rebooting, he started grub normally, I could choose from all the menu entries I set. I had 3 other partitions before I installed arch, these were windows 7 starter, system (dont know what that is, he showed me that under windows but it is unrecognized under linux) and a windows 7 recovery partition (from samsung).
so I first checked if he would boot the windows partition but I forgot also to configure the windows partition entry in the grub config so he loaded the recovery partition. after a reboot he showed me just a black screen with a flashing cursor at the bottom of the display that moves from the left side to the right constantly. there is no error or anything, he even shows the text "loading grub" at the beginning but then I get that screen.
I still can boot my arch live image, here's the output of fdisk -l
/dev/sda1 * 1 1959 15728640 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 1959 1972 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1972 20841 151565496 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 20841 30401 76798472+ 83 Linux
also I tried to manually mount the partitions from the live image but I'm still kind of a noob with linux, should this be the right command?
mount /dev/sda4
because that doesnt work, he says he "cant find /dev/sda4 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab".
I hope you can help me, thx

well...no I just let pacman do the update (where some things with renaming kernel files were mentioned). but considering the fact that I didnt update the system the first time the problem occured and the fact that booting from the windows recovery partition triggers the problem I dont think that the problem lies within linux or updating.
besides that I dont even come to the grub menu, he only displays "grub loading stage1.5" and then the screen with the cursor comes. He doesnt react on anything I try except the reboot shortcut.
and can you help me with my previous question? "And how can I manually install grub from the live image? I dont want to go through the whole installation again, only overwrite the existing grub and with it the mbr."

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