udev or fstab failing during boot

[DaveQB]

ok fella's need some help here.

Recently installed SuSe 10.0 and been loving it.

I noticed 2 of my 3 windows paritions weren't being mounted with the options i stipulated in fstab. Namely, i couldnt execute any scripts on those paritions and had to do, as root:

mount -o remount,exec /windows/E

Now ...... / wont mount in anything except single user mode.

There's nothing in /var/log/messages to explain besides the fact the / partition (/dev/hda7) isnt mentioned at all.

It seems udev isn't making the node device for it during boot, i am suspecting anyway. Also /dev/hdc2 has an error in /var/log/messages from udev saying it doesnt exist when it tried to make the node device for it, yet it does in single user mode and can even be mounted in single user mode.

I am lost. Looks like i might need to take a Windows method in fixing this and re-install /

[kage]

Have you tried reinstalling/upgrading udev? What kind of paramaters are you using at boot?

[DaveQB]

Nah, i didnt think you could install/reinstall in single user mode.

No boot parameters

SuSe part in lilo.conf
[code]
image=/mnt/suse/boot/vmlinuz
label="SuSe"
root=/dev/hda7
initrd=/mnt/suse/boot/initrd

read-only
[/lilo]

[kage]

I don't know if you can on suse, but on gentoo you could, I had a similar problem and removing/reinstalling udev fixed it. Try adding 'nodevfs' and 'udev' as kernel parameters.

Is there a 'repair' option on the suse install disk, possibly?

[DaveQB]

Originally Posted by kage

I don't know if you can on suse, but on gentoo you could, I had a similar problem and removing/reinstalling udev fixed it. Try adding 'nodevfs' and 'udev' as kernel parameters.

Is there a 'repair' option on the suse install disk, possibly?

Oh ok, i will try those boot parameters. They seem an odd mix though.

Yeah i think there is repair options on the DVD. I was heading to give that a shot but thought i'd try and fix it manually first