Re: Making Devices on First Install

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:29:02AM +0100, volker.tanger@wyae.de wrote:
> If I remember correctly, some of the Thinkpads do not use standard IDE
> controllers which leads Linux to believe they use some weird EIDE
> (?something starting with E, do not remember for sure?) conroller so
> the  drives' names  (Linux) are /dev/e*
> 
> Maybe the same problem here?
>

Someone with a thinkpad should try it out. The device names are printed at
the beginning of a line during startup by the kernel.

Thanks,
Marcus