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Need help to boot recover root password on solaris 10 w/zfs

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As i try to recover a forgotten password on a solaris 10 LDOM on Sparc using zfs, I get to the shell but cannot get the filesystem to mount

boot -F failsafe

SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_147147-26 64-bit
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Configuring devices.
Searching for installed OS instances...

ROOT/s10s_u11wos_24a was found on rpool.
Do you wish to have it mounted read-write on /a? [y,n,?] y
mounting rpool on /a
cannot mount '/a/mnt1': failed to create mountpoint
Unable to mount rpool/ROOT/s10s_u11wos_24a as root

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