I have been trying to get Solaris 8 intel 02/02 to work on a dual xeon... The motherboard is an Intel SE7500HG2 (Hodges Dual Xeon Mother board)... Even with bios settings trimmed back and only the onboard video, a HD, and a CDROM.. it gets to the bus scanning and just hangs.. I have tried doing the select scan and it hangs.. I have used every permutation of hardware from just ide HD and CDROM... to just SCSI HD and CDROM... I have used 6 different cdrom drives from the HCL... I even pulled out an old single speed SUNCD drive... it always just hangs.. Has anyone tried this board? The various subsystem chips seem to all be certified, Intel GigEth, Adaptec SCSI, and ATI rage video... my only thought is the the RAGE chip is a newer version (Rage XL).. and that is killing it. I will change to any brand of known good dual p4 Xeon board, and have called paid Sun Support to try and find one.. I am waiting on follow up, but figure there is a much more diverse and experimental crowd here.. thanks for any help. jon

I used SE7500CW2 mainboard for dual Xeons to install Solaris with two SCSI disks, the problem arose when the system starts scanning scsi bus, and failed. I had no time to use another SCSI controller as time was short, I installed FreeBSD 4.7 and it works fine without any troubles. Hope that in the future release of Solaris 9 will be added all needed drivers to support Intel. But as the experienced UNIX admin, I prefer Sparc arch for any high-reliable and fault-tolerant configuration rether then on Intel. However Linux or *BSD systems more adaptive to intel arch, working fine with it