[SOLVED] System hangs on boot

[MagusWizardo]

Ok, I'll start from the start. I was having a problem with my /boot being checked on startup, and complaining about a bad superblock. After ttrying all sorts of things, such as backing up and wiping that partition, I decided that since grub was still working (and needed to be able to read from this partition), and since I could mount it properly from the live CD, I changed the two numbers at the end of it's reference in fstab from '1 2' to '0 0'.
It fixed the complaints, but that system still isn't quite booting. It hangs on 'Starting local...' . INIT eventually says 6 different processes (ids c1 ... c6) are "respawning too fast", and thus it has them "disabled for 5 minutes". THe login prompt doesn't come up.

This came after I did 'emerge -uD world' yesterday, and ended up having to setup grub again (it wasn't displaying the menu, only a promt).

Is there any easy fix to this?

EDIT: Ok, I fixed this by setting up udev properly (turns out, I had it partially set up, and changing 'gentoo=noudev' in grub.conf to 'udev' fixed it... go figure).
And with a bit more tinkering, the only sideeffect I noticed (that I was about to post about) is gone... yay.