Don't know if this is because of my weird root password or what, but - after a serious fsck error, when the sysinit drops you to a prompt to type in the root password, and I type in 'st1cky*9win' (my root password), instead of logging me in, the system restarts, again doing an fsck and asking me for my root password.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16756 ***