Solaris 10 Sparc not rebooting in graphical environment

I've installed Solaris 10 on Sparc. When I reboot the system it only boots into character login prompt. I then logged in and cd /usr/dt and executed dtlogin which enabled me to bring up the graphical environment. This is a brand new install on some old hard drives.
When I installed 9 last week on this same machive, but different harddrive, the graphical login always came up.
What have I done or doing wrong. I installed solaris 10 for sparc and chose automatic reboot after installation so there weren't any other questions that I may have missed during the install.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.

It is working now - I ran sysid-unconfig, rebooted, re-entered all the info and it rebooted and came up to the login screen.

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2.       Downloaded and installed the Solaris SPARC Patches from the website,
     http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
4. Downloaded and installed XML and XSLT patch from sun website
5.       Tried to run the Java in server mode using -server option.

A 64 bit VM is not necessarily faster than a 32 bit one. I remember at least on suggestion that it could be slower.
Make sure you use the -server option.
As a guess IBM isn't necessarily a slouch when it comes to Java. It might simply be that their VM was faster. Could have used a different dom library as well.
Could be an environment problem of course.
Profiling the application and the machine as well might provide information.

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