There's nothing on MBR but the blinking GRUB cursor.
That's right. This is SUSE's GRUB. During installation of SUSE, YaST
overwrites the MBR, but it saves a copy of the old MBR on the hard drive. If
you want to restore it, you have to boot from the SUSE CD, open YaST, go to the
boot loader
Thanks for suggestions richardg, right at the very first command that imports
the rpool, there was a complain first that '/' is an illegal character but on
the second try when importing the whole rpool, the pool was reachable and I got
to the /rpool/boot/[b]grub[/b]/menu.lst and the contents