> The BIOS is at the latest revision.  Fedora, Windows, SuSe... they all 
> work.

Isn't Fedora / Suse using ISOLINUX as bootloader for CDs?
Solaris uses GRUB...

>  It's specifically the limited CDROM support built into the 
> Solaris boot loader (Thanks to Tony Reeves). 

I don't think there is limited CDROM support in GRUB.
I'd expect that a Linux distribution that uses GRUB on
the optical media would fail the CDROM boot on your machine
in exactly the same way as Solaris boot fails...

 
> Once the CDROM  was put on 
> the first IDE channel internally it worked.

That should confirm that the media was ok.

And the BIOS seems to have problems accessing
the CDROM during a GRUB boot; which is similar to
bug 6513165..
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