[plug] Root filesystem not remounting read-write?

[James Devenish]

In message <200407151115.35332 at death.2.spammers>
on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:15:35AM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> The root filesystem (reiser) seems to have been afflicted in some
> way during one crash... it fsck's OK, but a normal boot fails to
> mount it read-write.
[...]
> I've instrumented boot.localfs with debug statements...should I be
> looking at things other than the return status of the mount commands?

Forgive me for asking the obvious:
 - are you sure that your dmesg and other logs
   do not give any hint as to why the volume ends
   up read-only?
 - Is your /etc/fstab OK?