Solaris 10 x86 Boot Issue

Hi,
I've installed Solaris 10 for x86 into my P4 machine. It has three partitions - two of them are being used by Win2K Advanced Server and in the 3rd one Solaris 10 was installed. Installation was successful and the Boot manager is working fine. I can boot windows from the Boot Manager. But Solaris is not booting. It is freezing afer I give enter in proceed with Default booting. The 'SunOS.....' Message is coming and that's it. Even no Erro message came also.
Need some help.
Thanks

Solaris makes one of the partitions active , Take a note of that.
Once you are done tinkering with the partitions/ loading say Windows/Linux follow this step.
Grab any Linux distro's boot CD and start the rescue mode. type grub and do this
root (hd0, X) X the partiton that has linux partition minus 1
setup (hd0)now open fdisk and change the label of the Solaris Partition to 80.
Add an entry in /boot/grub/menu.1st on the same lines like Windows, If unsure google .
Reboot and you are done.
Never I said never make any other partition active other than what Solaris installation does for you.

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