Brian Hechinger said:

>i whine about this every once in a while, but nobody listens to me. :)
>
>anyway, i got away with booting into single user mode, and i had to hit it
>kinda hard with a 5 pound sledge and now it works great.  if you have alternate
>media to boot from (net, cd, tape, etc) boot from that, mount your root slice
>somewhere, and edit /etc/fstab to point to sd1, reboot.

I think I've just fixed it.

I swapped the drives so that the bootable disk is on top.

I changed the EEPROM so that it boots from:

/iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0

It now boots and mount all partitions.
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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com