Thanks! I had been using the grub command line from the running Linux system, rather than the command line
from the grub loader. It turns out that menu.lst was sitting happily on the Solaris partition, but grub couldn't see
that from Linux.
>Hi
>
>1. Maybe you are looking into a wrong grub ?
> Try from the grub command line
>
>grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst
>or
>grub> find /grub/menu.lst
>or maybe (?)
>grub> find /menu.lst
>
>2. Or maybe a mounted/unmounted /boot partition prevents
> you from seeing the truth? Is it possible that during "upgrade"
> your /etc/fstab remained unchanged, whereas the partitioning
> has changed? -> /boot partition ?
>
>Best Regards,
>Slawek Ligus