Mounting local file systems... proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) nothing was mounted done
Things are a bit difficult when you cannot get more information. I guess, that the system stops working in boot.udev, which comes after boot.localfs at least on my system. What you can do, is
boot the system with init=/bin/sh then run the different boot scripts in /etc/init.d, e.g. run /etc/init.d/boot.localfs start /etc/init.d/boot.udev start
and see if it crashes there. Maybe even something like echo "foobar" > /dev/shm/foobar
instead of the boot.udev kills the machine, then it would be a shm problem...
hmmm, sorry, I didn't understand too much ;-) So I booted with the normal bootline from the menu list but additionally inserted "init=/bin/sh" right after "acpi=off". I had a shell prompt. I typed "/etc/init.d/boot.localfs start" had the messages as above (mounting... nothing was mounted...) typed in "/etc/init.d/boot.udev start" had a shell prompt again - at least it didn't freeze... I typed "yast" just to see if it starts - and it did (didn't know what else I could type...). I just quit Yast without doing anything and shutdown. I didn't understand what you mean with the foobar thing... But now at least I have a shell prompt - if you can tell me what to do, I hope I can deliver the infos you need... b.t.w. I have no idea what "shm" is.