Boot Problems (suse 9.1)

Hi,

Long time ago I installed Windows XP and SuSe 9.1 (double partition) on my laptop computer (IBM ThinkPad X41). Few days ago I tried to boot in Linux and but it stopped at swap.
Here is what I get:

...
Mounting sharing manually done
After configuration of serial ports done
Activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab..
Adding 1044184k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority :42 extents:1 done

What should I do? I don't want to repartition and reintall linux.

Thanks,
Roxana

See if you can boot with a rescue CD and remake the swap partition. Basically just:

mkswap /dev/hda?

where ? is the partition number. Make sure you get the right partition, check with fdisk -l /dev/hda first.

I'm assuming the disk is /dev/hda.

However it may be not be the swap that is the problem but the next thing it is about to do.