Thanks for your help.

I tried everything I knew how to do.  GRUB is outside my  realm of  
expertise.  My machine would boot from each slice, but every one of  
them just presented the GRUB command line.  I have no idea how to get  
a machine to boot the OS from that prompt.  I found some information  
on the web about editing the menu item, but I didn't even have a menu  
to edit.  I tried manually editing the menu.lst files in each slice,  
but that didn't seem to work either.  I finally gave up.

My "solution" was to reinstall the OS on one of the disks using a ZFS  
root.  I mounted the other mirrored disk as a UFS file system and  
started copying over configs and data to the ZFS pool.  I am still in  
the process of getting the machine back up and running.  Once it's  
configured correctly, I will mirror the data back to the other disk  
using ZFS mirroring.

I think this will be better in the long run.  I have read quite a bit  
about ZFS, and it looks like it will greatly benefit me.

I'm just disappointed that the live upgrade didn't work and ultimately  
disable my system.  The only real reason I took the plunge to upgrade  
this machine was because live upgrade was supposed to be a safe method  
of doing the upgrade.  If I get up the courage again, I'll probably  
try the LU process again with my ZFS configuration instead of SVM.

- Jim

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