Installing Solaris 10 on X2100 with 1TB drive

I am trying to install the latest Solaris 10 (X86) on an Sun X2100. The installation fires up fine until it tries to set up the hard drive and then it fails with the following error message:
FILE SYSTEM CREATION FAILED
COULD NOT CHECK OR CREATRE SYSTEM CRITICAL FILE SYSTEMS
The installation then stops and I go to the shell. The drive in the machine is a 1TB Western Digital SATA. Has anyone ever run into this problem or know a way to troubleshoot this? I have 10 machines that I need to configure. One would think that Solaris would easily install on a Sun box.
Thanks for any help!

They have an onboard RAID controller but when I looked at the BIOS setting it is not enabled to use RAID. I have 2 1TB drives in the machine and the install throughs the error I mentioned above. It appears to have partitioned the disk and set up the slices though. I know this because I can swap the drives and look at the backup drive after the install fails via format and it looks like it has the correct label on it and it.
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