Rebooting in solaris 10

hi all,
I am facing a unique problem with solaris 10. The system is rebooting every few seconds. When i boot in the fail safe mode
everything is fine, i mean the file system is al fine. I even ran fdisk.everything seems to be fine..someone help!

When the system boots does it log any errors? This sort of seems like a hardware issue -- some driver isn't activated at the lower run level but is at the higher or something. A situation like that should yield a panic message on the system console.
Failing that, do a "boot -v" for verbose and see if your reboot is happening right after a particular service comes online. I think there's also a "boot -m" but I haven't used that.
Worst case, since it's Sun hardware, open a call -- 1-800-USA-4SUN

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tsmori

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