Root file system mounted read only

[Doug Lawlor]

Hello all, after a long laps in time I am rebuilding my linux box and am
having a problem with my root file system being mounted read only instead of
being mounted read/write. I have been doing some looking and e2fsck -p tells
me the file system is clean when I scan it using the system rescue cd from
www.sysresccd.org. I have been noticing that devpts is being mounted
although it is disabled in the kernel which by the way is 2.6.11. I am truly
at a loss here on what to do about this. I have ran into a similar problem
in the past and am not sure how I fixed it. The distribution is gentoo and
is set up to use udev. 
The file system is ext3 and is on partition /dev/hda3. I am using lvm for
/usr, /var, /home, /tmp and /opt. 
I know this is all kind of sketchy at 4:30 in the morning so any help would
be well appreciated. 
Glad to be back on the list again.  

Doug

Doug Lawlor, 
Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net
Skype: dlawlor1971