LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] boot problem reiserfs_dirty

hi

my laptop battery gave up the ghost midway through booting, probably at a critical moment. Now the boot process halts with a message similar to this:

Code:

REISERFS error (device sda10): vs4080 _reiserfs_free_block: block 1418656: bit already cleared

REISERFS (device sda10): remounting filesystem read-only

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WARNING: at fs/reiserfs/journal.c:3358 journal_end +0xc0/0xd0

Hardware name: Amilo Li 1818

Modules linked in /*follows a long list of kernel modules - ros*/

Pid:2444, com: rc.M Not tainted 2.6.30

Call Trace:

/* A list. I'll include the last one - ros*/

[<c0103341>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

----[end trace /*trace number*/]------

REISERFS warning (device sda10): clm-6006 reiserfs_dirty_inode: writing inode 15 on readonly FS

/etc/rc.d/rc.M: line 37: /var/log/dmesg: Read-only file-system

Starting sysklogd daemons: /usr/sbin/syslogd /sbin/ldconfig: Can't create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Read-only file system

and then it hangs. I can press ctrl alt del to reboot, but no prompts.
Has anyone got an idea of what I can do to boot successfully? It was running fine this morning. I shut it down and pulled out the power cable. Then later on I booted, having forgotten to plug the cable back in, some way through the boot process it died (the battery is pathetic), and this is what happened when I restarted. I presume the uncontrolled shutdown is the source of my problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

ros