[SOLVED] Boot fails after setting bios time to future

I set my pc clock to wrong year(future) in bios, it worked first time but after a reboot I am getting this error message:
Starting File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
systemd-fsck[299]: storage: Superblock last mount time (Sat Oct 30 17:11:14 2038,
systemd-fsck[299]: now = Wed Oct 30 18:12:01 2013) is in the future.
systemd-fsck[299]: storage: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
systemd-fsck[299]: (i.e., without -a or -p options)
Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" to try again to boot into default mode.
Give root password for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue): _
In emergency shell, running "systemctl default" and same error shows up again. Running "fsck /dev/sda1" says "/dev/sda1 is mounted\ne2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.". Umount'ing /dev/sda1 and fsck still says it's mounted. Google doesn't help much with this error.
Last edited by axper (2013-10-30 17:06:56)

That's what I tried:
(emergency shell)
# fsck /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux 2.24
e2fsck 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
/dev/sda1 is mounted.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
# umount /dev/sda1
# fsck /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux 2.24
e2fsck 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
/dev/sda1 is mounted.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
Also ran "fsck /dev/sda1" from live cd, rebooted - still the same.

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