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As I just wrote, the OP is running on SPARC so there is no GRUB involved. To boot in single user mode, type Stop-A to go to the openboot prompt then type boot -s

I am not familiar with Solaris for Intel/OpenSolaris but presumably you may boot up into single user mode by doing something at the grub stage (See Boot OpenSolaris into Single User Mode Mike Gerdts...

I think you dont need to have a solaris-8 CDROM for that.

try using

installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk \
/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

replace the rdsk path with your new disk...