Solaris 9 Install woes, 32bit 4m, 8bit console

Whilst attempting to install the latest release (non beta) of 9 in 32bit mode on my sun4m (SS5) via a dumbterm console (VT420), I've found that once I manage to get all of the settings and work through the somewhat arcaic installation (as compared to say, 2.6), I get the wonderful bar akin to 8's install, and immediately dropped right back to a root prompt; no errors, and virtually nothing that I can find to discern what the issue might be.
I've checked the CRCs and the burns, all appear fine; I'm installing from a Yamaha 4416SX CDRW, which handles 512 and 2048 modes beautifully; it's installed 8 as well as 2.6 on this machine. There is no flakey hardware at play; my SCSI chain is properly terminated, and I am just flabbergasted at this point.
Has anyone had issues of this sort, or have any pointers where I might look? A subsequent reboot fails from disk, as the miniroot is no longer setup to mount from the CD, although I could boot single and poke about.
Many thanks!
- R

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