Try to disable ACPI emulation in both Linux guest and QEMU command line.
It may help.
Also check the dmesg output when grub hangs. It may be trying to access
an empty or nonexistent floppy drive (I've had this behaviour in a real
machine where I had to tell grub to not search for a floppy drive)
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