[whitegm]

Hold tight - there is a listed bug against Reiserfs for opensuse11.0. It causes system lock up on a clean install. Having 10.3 servers running on Reiser I have been waiting for a post like this to confirm my fears about the chances of upgrading.

Can you please try the following:
Add the option noatim,noacl to all the reiser partitions in /etc/fstab. So where is says "acl,user_xattr" change it to say "noatime,noacl".

Reboot and post the results. Actually can you also please post your /etc/fstab in full so I can see it.

Hope it works out for you
Matteus

PS I use Vista and believe me you don't want to go there without a ****ed good reason i.e. a better reason than this.