Sol x86 1/01, Cpq Array 4200 controller install

Does anyone know of a faq or how-to on installing Sol x86 1/01 onto a compaq server that uses a Smart Array controller 4200?
I have the 4200 conf'd for raid 5, with a 4g partition logical volume and the remainder as a second volume.
I have dowloaded the Compaq DU for 2nd gen. array controllers, and add that driver.
When trying to install Sol onto this box, I get "The Solaris system could not detect a primary disk. Realmode drivers are used to detect them....."
PS: The install goes fine without an array controller. But this system is going to host a MySQL database and I would like to have a hardware raid.

I did try with ttyb menu item but no use. Same issue. I agree about 1 GB but Sun documentation clearly says that 512 MB is OK for this GUI installation. Earlier I did use Solaris 2006 on that same test machine but Solaris 2007 refused the install due to what you pointed out (it needs 768 MB min installed memory). Looks like Solaris 2008 have been tweaked back to fit within 512 MB requirement (that's what the Sun's documentation says).
But why this problem is happening. I feel so sad because I've disturbed the entire disk geometry to install the 2008 version on that test machine. Maybe it's bad Christmas time to me (coz OpenSuSE 11 too has gone haywire on that test machine as X died out and hung during post install auto configuration. So silly! Only Fedora Core 9 installed smoothly apart from the existing Windows XP SP2!).

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