Booting x4540 with a Compact Flash card

Hi Y'all,
I'm having this weird problem with a brand new SunFire x4540. They have the Compact Flash slot in the back, such that you can install the OS on the card and boot off it, thus allowing you to use all 48 SATA drives in the machine.
In the docs, it says "use only a 8GB or 16GB Compact Flash (CF) Card":
http://docs.sun.com/source/820-4855-12/chap3-pre.html#0_pgfId-1008964
So I'm trying to use a 16GB CF card, a SanDisk Extreme 16GB UDMA CF. But, when I go into the BIOS, I see this (under IDE configuration):
Device: Primary IDE Master
Vendor: SanDisk SDCFX-016G
Size: 0MB <--- This can't be right
LBA Mode: Supported
Block Mode: Not Supported
PIO Mode: 4
Async DMA: MulitiWord DMA-2
Ultra DMA: Ultra DMA-5
S.M.A.R.T.: Not Supported
Now, I can install OpenSolaris on it, it sees it fine during install and no errors are reported during install, but I cannot boot from it, it dumps me to the grub prompt. It makes me suspicious that the BIOS thought it was 0MB big. At grub, I can do this:
grub> geometry (hd0)
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 1024/255/63, The number of sectors = 64528, LBA
Partition num: 0, [BSD/SOLARIS sub-partitions immediately follow]
BSD/SOLARIS Partition num: 'a', zio_read_data failed
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
BSD/SOLARIS Partition num: 'c',
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
BSD/SOLARIS Partition num: 'i',
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
That makes me think that the disk is too big for the BIOS, even though the docs say a 16GB CF should work. Now, we have another x4540 that DOES boot off a 4GB CF. We tried it in the new 4540 and it does work there as well. So: Are the docs wrong, and you must have only a 4GB CF? The BIOS sees the 4GB CF just fine:
Device: Primary IDE Master
Vendor: Kingston 4G
Size: 3.8GB <--- It sees the size
LBA Mode: Supported
Block Mode: Not Supported
PIO Mode: 4
Async DMA: MulitiWord DMA-2
Ultra DMA: Not Supported
S.M.A.R.T.: Not Supported
Or, are only certain CF cards supported? I could not find a list anywhere... I tried contacting Sun Hardware support but no one seems to have any info over there yet. Does anyone here perhaps have any data? Like, which CF cards are supported? From what I gather, Oracle does not sell CF cards anymore and we were asked to buy a 3rd party one, without knowing there would be problems.
Thanks for any insight!
PS- I already upgraded the BIOS to the latest version to try to fix this, but it didn't help...

Hello,
We boot 6250 blades in a SUN Blade 6000 chassis with 4GB Kingston compact flash cards, and have no issue. It sounds like the docs are incorrect that the 16GB card is supported, as the BIOS needs to be able to recognize it and does not. Since Solaris or Linux will fit just fine in 4GB, I'd suggest going that route, unless you need it for more than just the OS (like using it for swap as well).

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