Thanks for all that. Your replies are confirming that it is the "state-of-the-art" and not so much what I am missing in my steps, that is causing the "hickups". And I put "hickups" in quotes because I'm *not* speaking disparagingly here: It is what it is at this point, and that in fact is the answer - at this point in time avoid moving a USB hosted O/S disk between USB ports. :-)
BTW... I did notice that boots into failsafe mode results in inconsistent device trees (it changes between boots) -- so I was hip to checking out the /dev/(r)dsk directories to confirm my boot device. I will try booting using "-m milestone=none/remount" method, but didn't before because not sure I will get that far. If I do, I will devfsadm it, and report back the results. Regards. This message posted from opensolaris.org
