Solaris 10 x86 don�t recognize hard disk of Dell PowerEdge 2850

Hi:
I�m installing Solaris 10 X86 in a PowerEdge 2850, after I changed ACPI and put 119376 -01 patch, now i can see disks but when the instalation begin it go until 15% and doesn�t follow with it and doesn�t show any messages .
I have a perc 4e/di Raid Controler and 3 hard disk off 73 Gb
Thanks for Advance.

Solaris 10 does not play well with certain raid controllers shipping on the Dell 2850s.
See http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=23549
You may want to look at the HCL entry for the 2850
From http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/details/806.html
Stephan Sachweh writes,
If you have a DRAC4/I board inside you should upgrade the firmware to v1.20 and disable the VIRTUALCDROM and VIRTUALFLOPPY while installing Solaris.
Also you need a patch for big drives if you have 73GB Seagate harddisks.
In your Solaris 10 boot floppy, edit Solaris/bootenv.rc, append this line to the end of this file: setprop acpi-user-options 0x4 ---
For some info about the perc 3/di on the older 2650s, see http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/details/6.html

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Tried to specify boot option "acpi-user-options=2" in the GRUB. Then it fails to mount the floppy drive
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