

without the lspci (just lspci, not "lspci -v") output for the IDE and the SATA interface(s) it isn't possible to check whether 2.6.18 has support for these chipsets or not.Six Serial ATA IDE interfaces
One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support
I agree with youwynn wrote:No lspci?
In your .config you have "CONFIG_M586=y", surely this should be unset and "CONFIG_MPENTIUM4" selected?
I see that you have all the PATA and SATA (and SCSI) drivers selected.
So, if there is support in the 2.6.18 kernel then it should work. However, without the lspci output, there is nothing more to be said.
Probably because the BIOS is not looking at this SATA disk for a boot record.I attached my sata disk with my daily-use gentoo box. (made for intel945, can boot with i975 and via chipsets) . But I can't boot also from this sata box: mobo says: "no boot device attached.Please insert boot floppy." Grub is not recognized ...
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cd /boot/grub
dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
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find /boot/kernel-2.6.18-gentooCode: Select all
(hd2,4)Code: Select all
configfile (hd2,4)/boot/grub/grub.conf