Hi Shourya,
I have a SATA disk with the intel piix chipset. In kernel 2.6 there is a separate section for SATA disks, but kernel 2.4 does not have any such section. How can I compile kernel 2.4 for the SATA disk support? I tried compiling 2.4.26 with support for piix chipset in the list of IDE drives but on booting I get kernel panic with the message "cannot open root device". Can anyone suggest the correct options to be used in the .config file.
The "problem" is, that SATA was merged in 2.4._27_ and PIIX/ICH SATA support in 2.4._28_, so there's no wonder why 2.4.26 do not offer you any SATA options like you see in 2.6 :)
You might want to update to 2.4.29-rc3.
ciao, Marc
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