>Are there any other error message logged to the console >screen before it shows the "system maintenance" prompt?
Not that I remember. >What kind of optical drive are you using? Is that perhaps a S-ATA optical >drive? Yes, it is a SATA drive. Hardware ID = ?TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203. It's supposedly a Samsung drive even though" Samsung" is not printed on it anywhere. I must note that I did get OpenSolaris to install in VirtualBox. This message posted from opensolaris.org
