Solaris 11 11/11 Dell r515

Hello,
I'm having trouble installing Solaris 11.0. I have tried installing from live and text. They both go through just fine but when I reboot and disconnect the DVD drive so it boots from hard disk and it just tells me No Boot Device Available. This happens even if I explicitly tell the server to boot from hard disk. When installing 11.1 it worked fine but since 11.1 has an iscsi issue we need to use 11.0. This is a brand new Dell r515. I even went through the 3 hour format process on the drive. What am I missing? Anyone ever seen this?
thanks!

I have tried installing on 2 x86 machines now and had the same issue as the original post - i used whole disk to eliminate any of my own mistakes when partitioning. The 2 machines have very different hardware.
I have just installed in VirtualBox - on first try i received an error regarding hardware virtualization which i had to switch on in the BIOS.
Is that only relavent when installing in a virtual environment?
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