New X2270 won't boot OpenSolaris 2009-06 from internal disk

Is anyone having any problems with recent X2270 servers? I took delivery of two of these last week. They are without the ILOM card because Sun are having quality issues with them - a firmware bug I believe. They are fun to install as my only eyes is via a serial port that seems to have some kind of bios video text to serial ascii emulation which has quite a delay on it.
Basically after installing Solaris it won't boot from the internal disk. So far I've tried net installs of SXCE b105 and also the latest OpenSolaris 2009-06 and in both cases the install completes correctly without any errors (that I've detected) but after rebooting they fail to load the kernel. Here is what's left on my serial console:
Press F2 to run Setup (CTRL+E on Remote Keyboard)
Press F12 if you want to boot from the network (CTRL+N on Remote Keyboard)At this point the hard drive activity light flashes twice and then the machine appears frozen. The Solaris banner is never shown. I've left it like this for hours just be sure.
I've chosen ZFS for the whole disk in both instances. I wonder if this has something to do with it.
Presumably OpenSolaris has the drivers for the disk interface cards otherwise it wouldn't have been able to install onto the disks.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards
Jesse

The solution for my problem was reinstalling linux-firmware & linux. Maybe this can help you too.
I have booted from a live cd and doing these steps:
RAID Array scan
mdadm --examine --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf
RAID Array start
mdadm --assemble /dev/md1
mdadm --assemble /dev/md2
mdadm --assemble /dev/md3
mdadm --assemble /dev/md4
LVM scan & aktivieren
vgscan
vgchange -a y
Mounten von „root“ & „boot“
mount /dev/mapper/root-root /mnt/root/
mount /dev/md1 /mnt/root/boot/
In „chroot“ wechseln
cd /mnt/root/
„dev“, „proc“, „sys“ einbinden
mount -t proc proc proc/
mount -t sysfs sys sys/
mount -o bind /dev/ dev/
Nun / ändern
chroot ./
Reinstalling packages with
pacman -S linux-firmware linux
May I could help you
jesus loves you

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