mdconfig problem on make release of 5_4_0_RELEASE

[William Richter]

i'm attempting to make a release and the build of the mfs image is failing (see below).

it's mdconfig that's failing:

+ mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot
mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device

if fact i chroot'ed into the release directory and played around with mdconfig.  i cannot get it to function properly.  it always responds with 'mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device'

i cannot get google to find anything related to this problem.  what gives?  i'm dumb-founded.  please help me!

sh -e /usr/src/release/scripts/doFS.sh bsdlabel "" /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot /R/stage /mnt  4320 /R/stage/mfsfd 8000 minimum3
+ export BLOCKSIZE=512
+ DISKLABEL=bsdlabel
+ shift
+ MACHINE=
+ shift
+ FSIMG=/R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot
+ shift
+ RD=/R/stage
+ shift
+ MNT=/mnt
+ shift
+ FSSIZE=4320
+ shift
+ FSPROTO=/R/stage/mfsfd
+ shift
+ FSINODE=8000
+ shift
+ FSLABEL=minimum3
+ shift
+ [ 4320 -eq 0 -a minimum3 = auto ]
+ rm -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot
+ dd of=/R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot if=/dev/zero count=4320 bs=1k
+ uname -r
+ [ -f /R/stage/trees/base/boot/boot ]
+ BOOT=-B -b /R/stage/trees/base/boot/boot
+ dofs_md
+ [ x != x ]
+ mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot
mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device
+ MDDEVICE=
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/src/release.
+ umount /dev
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/w/FreeBSD_20050519/usr/src/release.




# uname -a
FreeBSD bsdmaster.hcs.tl 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8 10:21:06 UTC 2005     root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


  mdconfig fails in chroot'ed environment:

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