Solaris 10 x86 06/06 GRUB hangs

Dear forum,
I need help regarding Solaris 10 x86 06/06 OS GRUB hangs.
I had installed Solaris 10 06/06 OS in my SFX4200 server. After installation, i has installed Solaris 10 Recommended patches and rebooted the system. My next tast is to mirror the OS which i did successfully with the guide from SunSolve document id:83605. After the mirroring process i rebooted the system and its booted up successfully.
Then, i register my Solaris 10 OS using the Sun Update Connection Manager. Next, i click the "Check For Updates" button and i saw a message says analyzing system. Suddenly, my office internet having problem( intermittent ) for 2 hours. Again, i checked Sun Update Connection and its around 50% for 2 hours plus.
So, i decided to reboot the system. While rebooting the system hangs at "GRUB" word. I tried pressing enter, control c n control d but nothing prompt me and the system cannot boot the OS.
Please help me to troubleshoot the problem and guide me.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Eldar,
Thanks for your reply.
I have done with your instruction by booting cdrom and ran the "installgrub" command. I rebooted my server.
After reboot, i saw grub> word and now i can type command.
Here are the steps:
grub> root
(hd0,0,a): Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x0
grub> setup (hd0)
checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
checking if "/boot/grub/ufs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0,a)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.1st"... failed
Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2
grub>
How can i recover from the above mentioned problem ?
Note: My hard disk was mirrored before disaster happened.
Question:
1. Last time, after i installed OS and mirrored OS, whenever i reboot my server i can see GUI window asking me to choose which to boot but now, i only can see black background and grub>. How can i recover the GRUB GUI, so that whenever system boots, i can choose the options ?
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