Solaris 10 Boot Hangs on T1

Solaris 10 is hanging during boot from the OpenBoot firmware on my T1. Below is the output from doing an interactive boot from OpenBoot using the "boot -a" command. I use the default values for all options and the boot hangs after the root device is specified.
I'm rather new to Solaris so this problem has me stuck. Any ideas?
Thanks!
-JohnC
Sun Fire(TM) T1000, No Keyboard
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.20.0, 8184 MB memory available, Serial #<removed from post>.
Ethernet address <removed from post>, Host ID: <removed from post>.
Rebooting with command: boot -a
Boot device: /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/disk@0,0  File and args: -a
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.12 00/07/17 15:48:16.
Loading: /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/ufsboot
Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]:
Enter default directory for modules [/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/kernel /platform/sun4v/kernel /kernel /usr/kernel]:
Name of system file [etc/system]:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-24 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
root filesystem type [ufs]:
Enter physical name of root device
[/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a]:

More information:
"boot -v" gives:
Rebooting with command: boot -v
Boot device: /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/disk@0,0  File and args: -v
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.12 00/07/17 15:48:16.
Loading: /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/ufsboot
The boot filesystem is logging.
The ufs log is empty and will not be used.
Size: 0x79038+0x1cf01+0x31a0b Bytes
module /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/kernel/sparcv9/unix: text at [0x1000000, 0x1079037] data at 0x1800000
module misc/sparcv9/krtld: text at [0x1079038, 0x1091c7f] data at 0x184e910
module /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/kernel/sparcv9/genunix: text at [0x1091c80, 0x11e7d6f] data at 0x1854100
module /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/kernel/misc/sparcv9/platmod: text at [0x11e7d70, 0x11e7d77] data at 0x18a5d50
module /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1: text at [0x11e7d80, 0x11eb05f] data at 0x18a6480
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-24 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Ethernet address = 0:14:4f:21:ac:68
mem = 8380416K (0x1ff800000)
avail mem = 8379793408
root nexus = Sun Fire(TM) T1000
pseudo0 at root
pseudo0 is /pseudo
scsi_vhci0 at root
scsi_vhci0 is /scsi_vhci
px1 at root: 0x7c0 0x0
px1 is /pci@7c0
PCI Express-device: pci@0, pxb_bcm0
pxb_bcm0 is /pci@7c0/pci@0
PCI-device: pci@8, pci_pci0
pci_pci0 is /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8
/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2 (mpt0):
        Rev. 2 LSI, Inc. 1064 found.
/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2 (mpt0):
        mpt0 supports power management.
/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2 (mpt0):
        mpt0 Firmware version v1.6.0.0 (IR)
/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2 (mpt0):
        mpt0: IOC Operational.
PCI-device: scsi@2, mpt0
mpt0 is /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2
sd1 at mpt0: target 0 lun 0
sd1 is /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/sd@0,0
root on /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a fstype ufs
pseudo-device: dld0
dld0 is /pseudo/dld@0
cpu0: UltraSPARC-T1 (cpuid 0 clock 1000 MHz)
cpu1: UltraSPARC-T1 (cpuid 1 clock 1000 MHz)
cpu2: UltraSPARC-T1 (cpuid 2 clock 1000 MHz)

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