trouble installing slack 11 on thinkpad z60m

hello everyone, it´s been a while!

i got myself a laptop ( a thinkpad z60m )and im having a problem in installing slackware 11 on it,
the harddisk is a sata one, reiserfs root on /dev/hda4
installed normally but for the wireleess to work as well as other stuff i had to upgrade to 2.6 kernel series, particularly the generic-2.6.17.13 version, so i installed the one on the cd, along with the modules, headers. booted into it and it hanged during boot giving this message:

VFS: cannot open root device ¨hda4¨ or unknown-block (0,0)
please append a correct ¨root=¨ boot option
kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root fs on unkown-block (0,0)

So i thought maybe i should append /dev/sda4 as root device since its a sata harddisk but it gave me an error at boot:

no filesystem could mount root, tried ext2
kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root fs on unkown-block (8,4)

I even made an initrd which loads reiserfs and still gives me the same error.

so far th 2.4 kernel works, except it hangs on hotplug so chmod -x it by a boot cd, but i have to upgrade to 2.6 to be able to load the ipw2200 module for my wireless NIC.
i use grub to dual-boot with windows.

Am i missing something? any help is appreciated.

thanks

Hello my friend, I am afraid that I don't know the answer to your question, but your post came up twice so I have deleted one.

Please make sure that the survivor has all you want in it, or edit it accordingly.

Cheers :)

thanks sorry for the double post, its ok

You need to go into the bios and toggle the SATA settings.
You'll find "AHCI" is the default, change it to "Compatibility"
and it should work. HTH.

i cant find sata settings in the bios

You need to append the new sata address of the drive in both lilo.conf AND /etc/fstab.
let me know if you change it in both files and if it works or not.

the 2.6 kernel finally booted, i dont know how i missed it, that was stupid.
thank you.

was that the issue?

yeah i forgot to update the fstab also with sda4 :D