[gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

[b.n.]

Hi,

After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, I
rebooted, and I found this dreaded message:

/dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)

And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem is,
my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot into
my system.

I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I wonder
- if there's some other solution
- something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem?

Thanks,
m.
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