I installed SuSE 9.2 on ext3 drive. I haven't faced this problem with ReiserFS but in et3, root mounts read only.

While in verbose mode, it asked me to write syntax:

Code:
mount -n -o remount,rw /
But after doing logout, the system reboots with same RO options. I modified the fstab so it is:

Code:
/dev/hda7     /   ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro  0 1
But upto no avail.