Comment 19 for bug 528981

I have tried inserting a USB memory stick, but it seems that the system is unable to mount it once the root partition has been remounted readonly. Is there any command to remount the filesystem rw, at my own risk?

I also collected some possibly duplicate launchpad bugs here http://www.iol.ie/~stuartneilson/Bootup_fsck.html

and I will try the upstream kernel later on today.