diff --git a/elements/redhat-common/finalise.d/99-cleanup-tmp-grub b/elements/redhat-common/finalise.d/99-cleanup-tmp-grub
deleted file mode 100755
index 6a7909117..000000000
--- a/elements/redhat-common/finalise.d/99-cleanup-tmp-grub
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-if [ ${DIB_DEBUG_TRACE:-1} -gt 0 ]; then
-    set -x
-fi
-set -eu
-set -o pipefail
-
-rm -rf /tmp/grub
diff --git a/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml b/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml
index 025158f15..81e19aa9d 100644
--- a/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml
+++ b/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml
@@ -6,14 +6,3 @@ traceroute:
 which:
 gettext:
     phase: pre-install.d
-
-# these are being installed to satisfy the dependencies of grub2.  See
-# 15-remove-grub for more details
-grub2-tools:
-    phase: pre-install.d
-os-prober:
-    phase: pre-install.d
-redhat-lsb-core:
-    phase: pre-install.d
-system-logos:
-    phase: pre-install.d
diff --git a/elements/redhat-common/pre-install.d/15-remove-grub b/elements/redhat-common/pre-install.d/15-remove-grub
deleted file mode 100755
index ba1d922a1..000000000
--- a/elements/redhat-common/pre-install.d/15-remove-grub
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-if [ "${DIB_DEBUG_TRACE:-0}" -gt 0 ]; then
-    set -x
-fi
-set -eu
-set -o pipefail
-
-# grub2 isn't available on rhel6/centos6; they are setup to use
-# extlinux.  skip this
-# you would think we could match on $DISTRO or something else; but
-# we can't because the rhel/centos elements are a bit mixed up;
-# centos-minimal for example sets distro to "centos".  so the best
-# check is just for the original "grub-install" script
-if [ -f /sbin/grub-install ]; then
-    exit 0
-fi
-
-# remove grub2 package.  As described in
-# elements/ubuntu/pre-install.d/00-remove-grub; the grub post-kernel
-# install hook will barf if the block device can't be found (as
-# happens in a chroot).
-#
-# XXX : it is not clear this is necessary for fedora/centos7 and it's
-# install hooks.  Investigation is required.
-if rpm -q grub2; then
-    install-packages -e grub-pc
-fi
-
-# now configure things to re-install grub at the end.  We don't want
-# to rely on vm/finalise.d/51-bootloader to simply reinstall the
-# package via the package-manager, because at that point (during
-# finalise) the build-time yum-cache has been unmounted (hence the
-# local-cache looks empty) and yum may try to repopulate the
-# local-cache with all the grub2 dependencies.  This is slow, and
-# potentially fills up the disk.
-#
-# XXX : At this point, keepcache=0 *should* probably be set for
-# yum/dnf.  We have not standarised/documented that this will be done,
-# however.  This would *probably* stop dependencies being populated
-# into the cache.  We could investigate this, and possibly remove this
-# all together if we standardise some of these behaviours.
-
-# So we download the latest grub2 package and setup the install script
-# to just install the single-package, which will be called later by
-# vm/finalise.d/51-bootloader
-install-packages -d /tmp/grub grub-pc
-echo "rpm -i /tmp/grub/*.rpm" > /tmp/grub/install