Solaris 10 x86 intallation problems

I have an athlon based machine which was happily running XP this morning. I had previously divided the disk to use a Linux distribution on one half and XP on the other. I wanst using the Linux bit much due to graphics driver problems so I decided to replace it with a Solaris 10.
I duly went through the installation and was told that the solaris boot loader was incomaptible with the Linux one, grub I think, so I overwrote it and proceeded with the install. During the disk layout procedure I asked it to preserve my XP partition and use the rest for solaris. I had to shrink the solaris bit beyond teh full size by 100k or so and eventually it was happy, or so I thought.
Solaris is now duly installed and runs fine. I just need to sort out a network card driver. However my problem is that the sun boot loader sees the old XP partition as an extended dos partition (partition 3) and wont boot from it....
WHat have I done wrong?
Please dont tell me my XP partition is lost! Is there some tool I can use to make it bootable again? I have seen the grub bits on the GNU site. Are these any use?
All Help gratefully recieved.

FYI: I tried yet another version of solaris as i found out that theres a bug in the 64-bit kernel on update 4 for alot of new processors. Solaris 10 x86 update 7 did the trick! :). Installed right away on a standard 'Solaris 10 (64 bit)' VM. I still find it strange that the most recent version of solaris 10 fails to even start the installation.

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Edited by: Chris Tidy on 23-Mar-2012 03:36

Hi folks,
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Edited by: Chris Tidy on 23-Mar-2012 03:36

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"Once the Sun Update Connection client software is upgraded with patch 121118-06 (SPARC) or 121119-06 (x86/x64) or later revisions normal behavior will resume. "
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