I've got a strange boot problem : The boot process fails during the kernel loading and displays : Root-NFS: No NFS Server available giving up. VFS : Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. VFS: Insert root floppy ans press ENTER Then I press ENTER without inserting a floppy and I get : VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1~" or unknown_block(2,0) Please append a correct boot "root=" option ; here are the available partitions : 0300-419302 hda driver : ide-cdrom 0800-195360984 sda driver : sd ..... sda1 ..... sda2 ..... sda6 I have a different root device name each time I boot ! i.e: There I've got : "sda1~" but I can get "sda1vdp" or something else .... That's very strange .... I've got that problem since yesterday (5 april) just after updating my whole system. Therefore I decided to build the latest kernel thanks to another kernel that allowed me to boot normaly. I built it : everything worked out just after and now nothing works even if I try to boot with my old kernel ..... After that I decided to check my sda1 partition with : "ext2fsck -c /dev/sda1 and ext2fsck -y -v /dev/sda1 and badblocks /dev/sda1" It did no change anything. I don't understand very well because sometime I can boot correctly although I cannot most of the time .... But when I remove "root=/dev/sda1" from the grub config file I can boot ! Maybe it's a problem due to the update I've done yesterday ? (read my forum post in order to get more details) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot the system 2. 3. Actual Results: the boot process fails and I've got : Root-NFS: No NFS Server available giving up. VFS : Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. VFS: Insert root floppy ans press ENTER Expected Results: It should correctly boot with "root=/dev/sda1" option.
> Therefore I decided to build the latest kernel thanks to another kernel that allowed me to boot normaly. This kernel or that kernel - be exact please. Same goes for the bug subject.
I've got these problems with 2.6.24.2 and 2.6.24.
sorry it's 2.6.24.4 not 2.6.24 (sorry for flood) I don't use gentoo kernels , I build it from tarballs.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 216307 ***
