Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

[Morgan Fletcher <morgan@hahaha.org>]

I am running "testing", my system is up-to-date, except that I haven't
let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to remove.

I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get update
&& apt-get upgrade'. This morning I rebooted and got "LI". (Lilo
normally let's me boot into win2k or debian "testing".)

I pulled out an old potato-era rescue disk, entered "rescue
root=/dev/hda3" at the "rescue:" prompt and everything went okay until
it got stuck in an endless loop, repeating the same messages over and
over:

  insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: insmod net-pf-1 failed
  insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/200010319 Read-only file system

I don't know what's going on. Advice?

morgan