Recurring mounting problems(This can't be normal)

Howdy all,

I recently installed the 1.4_rc1 cd after having what I thought were 
disk corruption problems on my old 1.3 install.

Well, now I'm having the exact same problems.

When I boot into Gentoo, everything is fine until it starts to go 
through the boot scripts and I get this:

	* Remounting root filesystem read-only(if necessary)..   [!!]
	* checking root filesystem...
	fsck 1.27(8-Mar-2002)
	fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /
	/:
	The superblock could not be read or does .....
	..........

	* Filesystem repaired  [!!]
	* Remounting root file system read/write..
	* Root filesystem could not be mounted R/W: [!!]

	Give root password for maintenance
	(or type Control-D for normal startup):

Now my root partition is Reiser, so I don't understand why it's using 
fsck or why it's apparently trying to mount it as an ext2 filesystem.

Everything was running normally prior to this.  I shutdown, reboot and 
BAM!, nothing works.

Twice this happens and I'm *annoyed*.

Searching the forums didn't help me much.  Is there a searchable mailing 
  list archive?

Thanks,
Elam