When my ssh connection got stuck I didn't wait for it give me a "connection 
reset by peer" error and promptly proceeded to disconnect my connection using 
the ssh disconnect key pattern, i.e "ENTER ~ ."

I then connected over from serial console and saw machine BIOS messages as they 
show up when the machine is being restarted. Our serial telnet servers keep a 
log of the last messages on serial and I just check those. I installed 
opensolaris over serial using Automated Installer and these are the last 
messages, which is basically showing OS being installed:

066> Download: SUNWgnome-cd ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWlpr-cmds ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWgnu-coreutils ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWipkg-um ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWgetting-started-l10n-extra ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWislcc ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWtoo ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWroute ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWxcursor-themes ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWpcan ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWgsed ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWgnome-l10nmessages-ko ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWthunderbirdl10n-ru-RU ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWgetting-started-l10n-zhHK ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWopensolaris-welcome ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWssh ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWthunderbirdl10n-zh-TW ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWgnome-l10nmessages-zhHK ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWfirefoxl10n-it-IT ...  Done
066>
066> Download: SUNWgsf

This is a headless machine so there is no monitor connected to it. I had just 
finished installing the machine and configuring the IP address so no one else 
was on the machine to reboot it had a clue of it's existence. I also kept 
having the same problem (machine rebooting with mkfile command) untill I tried 
the "-k" option on the kernel line.

You are right, there is probably some hardware issue that is causing this (I am 
not blaming the OS), I am just trying to figure out what it is and how to find 
the cause. And no panic information in /var/adm/messages or on the console is 
very disturbing indeed.
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