Can't mount ext3 filesystem

[Steffen Grunewald]

Hi Ben,

> I've used FAI for a couple of projects in the past, but it's been a 
> while and accidentally re-formatted my FAI server for something else 
> (oops). So I've installed FAI on another Sarge server (newer version 
> than what I previously used) and I've got to a certain stage and am now 
> stuck...
> 
> I'm using a bootfloppy, and the boot process appears to work, the 
> nfsroot is mounted, the disks get partitioned etc, however I'm getting 
> the following message when FAI trys to mount each of the partitions it's 
> just created (except the swap):
> 
> mount: unknown filesystem type ext3

there's no ext3 support in the kernel...

> I get the same message if I try to manually mount from the shell. So... 
> any ideas what might be going on? I can't mount it as ext2 either if 
> that makes any difference. I'm using the default config that came with 
> FAI and am trying to build 'demohost'.

which kernel are you using?

Steffen