Moritz and Matty:
This issue had came up before and Vikram Hegde had the following response:
1. First run biosdev -d and get the output.
i.e:
solaris-devx# biosdev -d
adding /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0
adding /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 1/cmdk at 0,0
matching biosdev-0x80
match_edd bdf 0 31 2
interface type ATA pci channel 0 target 0
matched thru edd
0x80 /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0
matching biosdev-0x81
match_edd bdf 0 31 2
interface type ATA pci channel 0 target 0
matched thru edd
0x81 /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0
0x80 /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0 matchcount 2
0x81 /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0 matchcount 2
biosdev: Could not match any!!
2.
In the above case, this appears to be a BIOS bug which prevents biosdev
from figuring out the BIOS disk ID. There is an RFE filed
6513832 biosdev should try first block match if BIOS EDD info is buggy
that will help reduce the impact of such BIOS bugs.
In the meantime, you have a couple of options
1. Upgrade your BIOS to see if that fixes the biosdev problem.
or
2. Create an executable shell script like the following
#!/bin/sh
echo 0x80 /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0
echo 0x81 /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 1/cmdk at 0,0
and replace /sbin/biosdev with this shell script.
Moritz Willers wrote:
> 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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