Help!! Managed to erase a new second hard drive I added and now the system won't boot up

I can't believe it!! Having un-successfully tried to add a 2nd 2Tb HD, which wouldn't identify itself properly or erase. I took a HD out of one of my PCs and tried again. This time the hard drive was identified correctly and using disk utility I erased it and formatted it successfully. I then shut down, restarted and all I got was an initial white screen and then a black one with a flashing cursor. What have I done wrong...? How can i get the OS to start properly?

Hold down the Alt/Option key while you restart.
This invokes the All-in-ROM Startup Manager, which very slowly inspects each drive and draws an Icon for each potentially-bootable Volume.
If it finds one, select it and click proceed arrow.
If not you will need to boot fron your Installer/Utilities DVD and use Disk Utility from there to look around.
¿Is there a possibility a new drive is messing up the SATA Bus and precluding booting?

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Hi! I am newbie, I am sorry if this a dumb question...
How do I access my second hard drive?
This is what I have:
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I had my sparc working with Solaris 8 just perfect!
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disk 1. (SUN4.2GB) this is the hard drive with the OS Solaris 8. this is c0t3d0
Am I missing something?
Thanks!
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hi there ...
read below--
Find out the address of the drive
STOP+A
At the OK prompt, type probe-scsi. This will list all scsi devices on the system. Find the new drive.
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(ie, /disk2)
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