Mdconfig Problem

[Dima Dorfman]

Lawrence Farr <bsd-current at epcdirect.co.uk> wrote:
> I've got an odd error with mdconfig, a script which has been
> running on 5.x for months suddenly started giving this error
> 
> mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/5.2-20040211/floppies/kern.flp
> -u 0
> mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): No such file or directory

An error that starts with "ioctl(/dev/mdctl)" actually refers to an
error during the processing of the ioctl.  Opening the control device
is reported with "open(/dev/mdctl)".  The most obvious reason for the
former to fail with ENOENT is that the file you specified using -f
does not exist.

Hope this helps,

Dima.