[gentoo-hardened] Cannot boot a hardened-sources-2.4.33.4 on a SATA drive

[René Rhéaume]

I am unable to boot on a SATA drive using the kernel mentioned in the
title. I have no problem to boot a 2.6.19 hardened kernel however. My
motherboard is nForce 430-based and the 2.6 kernel uses the sata_nv
driver (built-in, not as module). I tried to use the same driver on
2.4 (also built-in), but I get the following panic:

Kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
VFS: cannot open root device "sda11" or 08:0b
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:0b

Apart the obvious "stick to the 2.6 kernel", what can I do?

$ /usr/sbin/lspci | grep -i ata
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
03:0a.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
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