Cannot mount root during Solaris install on SPARCengine ULTRA axi

I use boot cdrom which sucessfully formats swp partition and copies files to hd. But then when I reboot I get the following:
SPARCengine(tm)Ultra(tm) AXi (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), PS/2 Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.10.10 ME, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #10660686.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:a2:ab:4e, Host ID: 80a2ab4e.
ok boot disk4
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@1/disk@4,0 File and args:
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-11 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Cannot mount root on /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@1/disk@4,0:a fstype ufs
panic[cpu0]/thread=10408000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
0000000010407970 genunix:vfs_mountroot+70 (10435c00, 0, 0, 10410920, 10, 14)
%l0-3: 0000000010435c00 00000000104391c8 000000002f000000 0000000010435dc0
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 00000000104136b8 00000000000b7bf6 0000000000001bf6
0000000010407a20 genunix:main+94 (10410168, 2000, 10407ec0, 10408030, fff2, 1004
ef88)
%l0-3: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000015 0000000000000ea5
%l4-7: 0000000010428c28 0000000010462320 00000000000cd920 0000000000000540
skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...
Resetting ...
PS: I have recently reset the NVRAM on this machine not sure if there are any env settings I should have setup in OBP (I reset HOST ID and MAC-ADDRESS).

disk@0,0:a is slice/partition 0
disk@0,0:b is slice/partition 1
I'm not sure where you told it your swap slice was going to be. Looks like slice 1. Mini-root gets installed in slice 1 and then the install begins from there.
In the future, if you just "boot cdrom" from disk 1 of 2 you won't run into these issues.

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