I'm slightly confused on how many disks you have in the system,  
but ... when I run into this a year ago this helped me: http:// 
bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6362108 (biosdev fails with  
"biosdev: Could not match any!!").

My board didn't do "EDD" (I think, whatever that is) and biosdev had  
to resort to comparing the first block on the disk as read from the  
disk against what the bios says the first block is.  Both my disks  
had the same first block, so it couldn't tell the difference between  
them from the first block.

Once I changed the fdisk layout to be different on the two biosdev  
was able to tell the difference, but then I run into other  
problems ... But now I'm happily using LU with alternating BE on two  
partitions on the same disk.

good luck! - mo


On 18 Mar 2007, at 16:01, Matty wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I am trying to activate an ABE on an x86 server, and I keep getting  
> the following error:
>
> $ luactivate Solaris10_11_06_B
> biosdev: Could not match any!!
> ERROR: Device mapping command </sbin/biosdev> failed. Please reboot  
> and try again.
> ERROR: GRUB slice lookup failed.
> ERROR: Cannot determine GRUB slice.
>
> When I run biosdev with the debug option, I get the following:
>
> $ /sbin/biosdev -d
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 10/sd at 0,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 10/sd at 1,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 1,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 2,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 3,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 4,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 5,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 6,0
> adding /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 8,0
> matching biosdev-0x80
> magic not valid 0 pathinfolen 0
> matched first block
> 0x80 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 10/sd at 0,0
> matching biosdev-0x81
> magic not valid 0 pathinfolen 0
> matched first block
> 0x81 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0
> matching biosdev-0x82
> magic not valid 0 pathinfolen 0
> matched first block
> 0x82 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0
> matching biosdev-0x83
> magic not valid 0 pathinfolen 0
> matched first block
> 0x83 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0
> matching biosdev-0x84
> magic not valid 0 pathinfolen 0
> matched first block
> 0x84 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0
> matching biosdev-0x85
> magic not valid 0 pathinfolen 0
> matched first block
> 0x85 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0
> matching biosdev-0x86
> magic not valid 0 pathinfolen 0
> matched first block
> 0x86 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0
> matching biosdev-0x87
> magic not valid 0 pathinfolen 0
> matched first block
> 0x87 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 10/sd at 0,0
> 0x80 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 10/sd at 0,0 matchcount 2
> 0x81 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0 matchcount 6
> 0x82 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0 matchcount 6
> 0x83 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0 matchcount 6
> 0x84 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0 matchcount 6
> 0x85 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0 matchcount 6
> 0x86 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 11/sd at 0,0 matchcount 6
> 0x87 /pci at 0,0/pci1000,30 at 10/sd at 0,0 matchcount 2
> biosdev: Could not match any!!
>
> Does anyone happen to know what might be causing the luactivate to  
> fail?
>
> Thanks,
> - Ryan
>
>
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