(In reply to Bernhard Wiedemann from comment #5) > > Just tested on SLE-11-SP3 adding to fstab > /somedir /dev/vdx ext3 default 0 0 > > and this just boots fine. > It only fails, when setting the last param to 2 to trigger a fsck > and then goes into a sulogin with the rootfs mounted. Ok, but the default is 2 when adding a mountpoint via YaST. If you do it manually, you can as well just add the 'nofail' mount option. :-)