Solaris 10 x86 Won't Startup After Install - system just restarts itself?

Ok, I'm another one of those wacky Vista people. I have a Dell Latitude D630 running a dual boot scenario with Vista Ultimate and Solaris 10.
I had plenty of issues getting that working but it does work. Vista WILL boot. Solaris won't boot. Solaris failsafe will boot.
Now the issue is....
Solaris will not boot. When I select it from the GRUB menu, I see some text that flashes really quickly before the system restarts. It's the same text that I see when I boot failsafe mode.
Something to the effect of Sun Solaris.... blah blah....Subject To License Terms and Conditions....
So it's as if it's trying to boot Solaris, but for some reason it just restarts the system. The only thing that works is failsafe mode and Vista.
How can I troubleshoot this issue when I can only get in failsafe?
Please note I'm an IT professional (so I'm quite capable) but I have ZERO Solaris experience and limited (very limited) Linux experience so break it down for me if you will.
Thank you in advance!
SPECIFIC DETAILS:
*1. Solaris 10 x86 Platform*
*2. Windows Vista Ultimate*
*3. Dell Latitude D630 Notebook, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM*
*4. (1) HDD with a Vista and Solaris partition*
*5. I have tried installing Solaris 10 (3) times to resolve. To no avail.*
*7. Failsafe mode does boot.*
*8. Grub looks like this:*
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
modul /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
Edited by: derrickonline on May 13, 2008 4:53 PM
Edited by: derrickonline on May 13, 2008 4:57 PM

I should have searched the forums first. This was the solution to my issue....
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10249826

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Op 13-mei-2014, om 10:51 heeft Sanjay Kumar het volgende geschreven:
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