Kernel panic (hard drive not found)

[Dreq]

I've installed gentoo on a decent amount of machines thus far, but they have all been AMD with nforce/via chipsets. Now I'm trying to install gentoo on a friend's machine, but the kernel doesn't seem to be able to load the hard drive. The option passed: root=/dev/hda3 says that drive doesn't exist and causes a kernel panic. I'm assuming I'm missing a chipset or something compiled in but I know almost nothing about Intel... Heres the LSPCI output while in the x86 minimal install cd:

[code[00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (Secondary) (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 82)[/code]

[madchaz]

Did you compile the kernel by hand or did you use genkernel?

If you did it by hand, check to make sure you have the chipset selected. Shouldn't be any more complicated then on an AMD.
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[Dreq]

Thats the problem.. I don't know where it is, on the board or otherwise. Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller i assume is what defiantly needs to be loaded, but I don't know where in menuconfig to find that kind of driver support.

[srkitch]

device drivers -> ata support

i don't remember the exact names, but that's close. then just look down the list until you see intel choices....if you're unsure then select them all, there should only be about 2 or three from intel, max

[Dizzutch]

you might just be missing the "generic/default IDE chipset support" kernel option, could you check on that?
you can find it in
Device Drivers -> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
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[Dreq]

Ok its working now O_o... Then again it was late last night when i was working on the problem >.>