Solaris Express installation experience

Hi folk,
I want to add to my previous post about not getting the graphical installer to work at all due to the notorious
nVidia bug in Xorg.
I have now tried the console install thats supplied as a backup method in Express.
I got through all the sections, installed everything and then got an error that it could not install
the boot blocks, and attempting to boot gives a Bad PBR error.
My first attempt at installing in this manner was to have a drive split between Windows and Solaris, and with this error, I thought.. OK, I'll dedicate the entire drive to Solaris and try installing again.. this i did, but the same error
continued to haunt me.
No matter what I did, it cannot install to the boot block and thus renders Solaris Express useless to me.
system specs:
AMD64 on nForce4 Ultra motherboard
2 Gigs physical DDR400 memory
256MB Legend GeForce 6800GS Video
1x IDE 320GB Seagate Harddrive ( This was to be the Solaris drive, and is first on the list in BIOS )
1x SATA 180GB Hitachi Harddrive ( Windows XP Pro boot drive )
1x SATA 250GB Hitachi Harddrive
If there is any more information that I can give that may help, please dont hesitate to ask.

I found some time ago this:
http://www.webservertalk.com/message1607925.html
and this:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=29846
Maybe they'll be helpful.
Rev

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879952 wrote:
At bootup, I am asked to login, and I don't know what to do. During install, I had to make several entries for passwords & such. The "computer name" is solaris, and the "root password" is sunblade1500. I entered Bugs Bunny for "real name", Bugs for "user name", and bugs123 for "user password". I've tried all different combinations of these when prompted for login, but the only ones that seem to work and not give a "login incorrect" message are when I use either "Bugs" or "Bugs Bunny" as login, and "bugs123" as password.
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