Unable to boot to Solaris 10 CD

Hello everyone,
Here at the office we have an old Ultra 10. I downloaded and created the 4 CD's from downloaded ISO (extracted from zips), but the box refuses to boot from the CDROM1. Just to be safe, I re-downloaded the cd1 ISO, re-extracted, followed explicitly the sun instructions on how to burn to CD (using cdrecorrd), did the md5sum, and everything checks out okay.
But I get this error on boot:
Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args:
Short disk read
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable
I have made sure it was a 700MB CD, made sure it was burnt at DAO... I've been rummaging through the internet looking for solutions, but all the suggestions seem to check out.

I assume one of the following:
1. Media burning is not in X1 (some old CD-ROMs do not recongnize media burnt in more burning speed than their pre-defined ability.]
2. Wrong burning process -
you should check to see if you have s0-s6 slices on the CD.
hope this helps.

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From Ubuntu forums, I learned about this and this, both of which have bootable 32-bit EFI images, which work on Ubuntu live. Those, however, did not work with Arch Linux, for some reason, so I generated my own EFI images from the tutorial found on Taylorbyte.com. Not absolutely sure if I did it right however, since the tutorial seemed a bit dated, but it did get me into the basics I needed.
So, I now have a bootable USB drive with Arch Linux installed on it, with both 32-bit and 64-bit EFI images. My Acer Aspire 10E recognises the 32-bit EFI image and boots into GRUB loader from it, which asks me whether to boot into Arch Linux or Arch Linux Fallback. At this point, my keyboard still works, and I can choose either.
However, as soon as I choose Arch Linux to boot, it complains about being unable to boot from "UUID=<my USB's UUID>", and drops me into a boot console. The cursor blinks, but the keyboard input is not recognised at all.
I have recompiled the kernel for my live Arch USB (via makepkg -o and makepkg -e) as stated on the Ubuntu forums (setting HID_MAX_USAGE = 65536 in a certain header file in the kernel sources), but it didn't do much. The kernel still compiles, so I guess that's a plus.
Without keyboard, I am unable to install Arch on this machine, and I'm currently stuck with this error, which I'm not sure what to make of. I have never stated any UUID's while configuring my Arch live USB, so I suppose something is detecting it automatically, thus preventing Arch from booting (no idea what it could be, though).
So to conclude, I need help with booting Arch live USB on this machine, as well as getting keyboard to work. I have read here and there some people had some success with either Arch, Fedora or Ubuntu, and I've seen (32-bit) Debian 8.1 installer boot normally - without keyboard or wifi, though.
Any help regarding this would be very much appreciated.
Last edited by Wintershade (Today 12:49:37)

Hi Marc, Thanks for the swift response. I'm not sure if Acer (Philippines) will be able to give the necessary support since they are only selling the Switch 10 (not even Switch 11! So backwards!) . I don't mind reinstalling the file from time to time as long as it will fix the problem asap. Would it be possible to know how often you reinstalled the exe file to fix the problem? One more thing, the only thing that's hindering on buying the Switch 12 are problems like these (since we don't have the tech support yet). Would it be possible for you to send me the fix for the keyboard problem? Thank you very much! ++ How's the experience when you are using it on your lap, let say when travelling on a plane ? Is the built stable enough that it won't stumble that easily?

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Hi.
I did try to up the voltage all the way from 1.5 to 1.6 but no joy.
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