Solaris 8 on Intel .. HELP!

Hi,
I had a Pentium II 233Mhz and had loaded solaris 8 to work on it with the boot manager to take me to windows. I just bought an Intel Desktop board D845WN and a Pentium 4 processor and here's the problem I run into when I boot.
Boot manager comes up, if I select the BigDOS (Win2000) option, have a blank screen and machine freezes.
If I select Solaris, I get a warning "ACPI tables not in reclaim memory" and then a couple of resource conflicts (the motherboard has no options to change anything,its the plug and pray kinda stuff). Once it goes past this phase, the assistant loads the kernel image and but fails to mount '/'. It ends up with a maint. prompt and I can see the '/' mount point as /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/.. but if i see the /devices/pci@0,0 there is a pci-ide@7,1. The pci-ide@1f,1 is correct because the detection shows Bus 0, Device 31.
Can someone please tell me how do I get this to work... Is it time for me to say good bye to solaris 8 or go back to Pentium II (233)???
Thanks in advance

I've come across the same error messages in the same
sequence and have been stumped about how to resolve
the problem. I'm hoping that someone will read and
have an answer to these error messages.
chris
Hi All,
During when I tried to install Solaris 8 on my machine
I repetadely used to encountered following problem
listed below.I have also checked my motherboard's
chipset with Sun's Hardware Compatiability List, it
is there.
My Machine: Intel PIII
Motherboard: Intel 820
Processor Speed : 600Mhz
Ram 128Mb
Operating system to be installed : Solaris 8
The problems:
1. During the boot time I used to see:
SUN-OS Intel Plateform edition Primary Boot system VCN
2.0
Warning: ACPI table not in reclaim memory.
2. When This window disappear I will have this
window:
SUN-OS secondary Boot Version 3.0
Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting system
3. During when system is comming up I used to see
after following error after when systems shows :
Warning: Can not merge HWconf devinfo Node Fdc@1,3f0
I have consulted so many sun's plublication to cope
with this problems, but could not over come. Therefor,
please advise me how could I handle this problems?
Sarad

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