Moritz Willers writes:
> I assume this would be correct and my problem has moved on to biosdev?

It looks like it.  One known issue here, though, is with CR 6437463.
If you created your metadb on the same slice as you're trying to use
for the root, lucreate will fail to make it bootable.  It needs to be
elsewhere.

> biosdev: Could not match any!!
> ERROR: Device mapping command </sbin/biosdev> failed. Please reboot  
> and try again.

I've seen BIOS-related trouble here, but I've been unable to pin it
down.  On *some* platforms (particularly those with SATA), it seems
that the BIOS will report an arbitrary subset of the attached drives.

At least on my home system (Tyan 2885 motherboard), I was able to toy
around with the boot priority lists in the BIOS menus until
/sbin/biosdev reported my SATA drives as having valid BIOS ID numbers.

I haven't tried to debug it since, but there does seem to be a problem
of some sort here.

> I haven't rebooted, yet.  Not sure what purpose it could serve.   
> Booting of SATA disks.  Not understanding much in that biosdev debug  
> output... which direction should I go now?

File a bug.  I _think_ this is a BIOS issue of some sort, but someone
with the right skill set (and the time!) needs to get to the bottom of
this.

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