[SOLVED]: Install OracleSolaris 11 on the DELL laptop

Hi, ALL,
I don't know if this question belongs here, but here goes...
I downloaded an Oracle Solaris 11 image and trying to install the system on my DELL Inspiron laptop.
The machine boots up but in the console mode. I can communicate with the installer up to the point where it shows text GUI screen and says:
Welcome To Oracle Solaris
Thanks for choosing to install Oracle Solaris!
At the point keyboard is dead. I can't press F2, I can't press ESC. I can't communicate with the installer thru the keyboard.
Now, I'm assuming that since I didn't boot to the GUI installer, the installer does not support the video card I have in the laptop as explained in the installer documentation.
And so I have 2 questions:
1. Is my assumption correct? If yes, what are the chances that this install will boot the GUI/GNOME after the install? I successfully installed Linux on this machine...
2. How do I work around the keyboard issue?
Thank you for any pointer you guys can give.

Hi, Pascal,
My disk has GPT label and my partitions was made with "parted".
Can fdisk/format understand this kind of scheme?
Now, when in parted I typed "help mkpart", I did see the "solaris" as possible "fs-type". So could you tell more of what is not supported? Or maybe it is only in mkpartfs?
[EDIT]
Here is my partitioning scheme for reference:
Partition table: GPT
Number - 1, Start - 1MiB,     End - 3MiB,       Size - 2MiB,             File System - ,                    Name - grub, Flags - bios_grub
Number - 2, Start - 3MiB,     End - 131MiB,     Size - 128MiB,        File System - ext2,              Name - boot, Flags -
Number - 3, Start - 131MiB, End - 2000MiB,    Size - 1869MiB,     File System - linux-swap(v1), Name - swap, Flags -
Number - 4, Start - 2000MiB, End - 250000MiB, Size - 248000MiB, File System - ext4,              Name - rootfs, Flags -
All partitions are primary ones.
[/EDIT]
[EDIT2]
I just tried to run "format -> fdisk". It looks like fdisk does not understand GPT partition scheme. Any other idea?
[/EDIT2]
[EDIT3]
The first hit on Google for "oracle solaris install gpt" gives Partitioning Your System - Installing Oracle Solaris 11.1 Systems. According to section "
Guidelines for Partitioning a System During an Interactive Installation", "existing GPT partitions or DOS partitions are retained by default and displayed by the installer" but it simply not true.
When I double click the installer, and go to step 2, all I see is one disk marked as "EFI Header Indicator". There is no partitions on that screen. And the text says: either use the whole disk or partition the disk.
[/EDIT3]
Thank you.

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