System won't boot... syseventd is faulty

UNIX Solaris
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Dear all

I have a SPARC solaris 5.10 system. I did something very silly while editing the vfstab file I modified the root (/) filesystem mount point setting to be

/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0      /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0

notice the difference.
When I rebooted the system it fails with a service called syseventd failing to start and forcing me to maintenance mode. Of course i mounted the filesystem in maintenance mode and modified the vfstab file but the problem is still there.
Any help?

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you might want to post the actual console error messages ...

also, did you confirm that /etc/vfstab is now correct? were any of the filesystems mirrored or striped?

what exactly did you change?

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Ok guys i figured it out... the system had SVM mirroring and I was booting from the wrong disk.

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