> Then I see the standard 3 lines of text:
> 
> SunOS Release 5.11 ........
> Copyright 1983-2009 .......
> Use is subject to ........
> 
> but then all I get is a flashing underscore
> character.  I've left it for a good 30 minutes and
> when I come back I see exactly the same flashing
> underscore character.
> 
> Although I don't have the exact details to hand, I'm
> using a standard Intel server motherboard with two
> single core (with hyperthreading) Xeon CPUs installed
> into it with 3GB or RAM.  

The exact hardware details would be interesting.


Wild guess: Is this perhaps an Intel DQ45EK motherboard
with Intel Q45 chipset?

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=100709


> Are their and verbose or debug options i can pass to
> the kernel in grub to get any details about where the
> problem is...

Yes; boot the kernel with option "-v"
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