I have a SuSE 8.1 system, and I replaced the motherboard and CPU in my machine.
Now the system does not start, it is stucked in this stage:

Entering runlevel 5
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
.
.
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
(Nothing more to start in runlevel 5)

And here the machine waits for 5 minutes and the same messages are repeated all over again.

I already google searched the web and learned that the problem is related to that all of the X programs are crashing when started.
What I do not know: how to solve the problem without loosing data.

The only thing I can do now is to boot up the rescue system from the SuSE installation CD.
But what's the next? Could you help me?

If you got onboard video go to runlevel 3 - init 3 and replace whatever driver you got in /etc/X11/XF86Config for the graphics with 'vesa'.That 'should' give you a gui.
Got no idea how the rescue system works since I don't use Suse but as long as you don't delete or reformat any partitions your data will be save.

Just boot into the single user mode, and then try to install the graphics driver, sound driver etc. for the new MB you bought. But I would advise you to perform a reinstall/upgrade as this way, you don't have of the problem of old drivers hanging around.

It seems that I look forward to spending my time with re-building my system for months again... (Though I just finished the last such 'project' which was due to a HDD failure)
It is easy and fast to re-install the base system but there were some programs that were heavy issues to install, and I hate struggling with them from time to time.


Anyway, thanks for the help.