if you have serial port com1 9 pin connectors on your motherboard or laptop, Connect a serial cable with a null modem adapter to your second computer (windows use hyperterminal) com1/ttya port and set your /etc/remote file i.e: ttya:dv=/dev/cua/a:br#115200
on the server your trying to load edit grub and add option to the -B to the grub menu (use e for edit) i.e: -B console=ttya,ttya-mode="115200,8,n,1,-",$ZFS-BOOTFS,prom_debug=true,kbm_debug=true -rv t then save the hyperterminal log or run script unix command to capture the output of tip ttya session output. tip ttya back on server your are trying to load start the boot in grub by hitting b for boot. Post the output and open a CR at bugster http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa -- This message posted from opensolaris.org