Did you compile or otherwise install a new kernel? If so, did it include ext3 support built-in (that is, not as a module)?

It was the same kernel that had been working the previous day.

If it's just a typo on your part, then try adding noacpi to the kernel command line from grub.

Yea, that was just a typo, but I will try the noacpi command when I get home tonight.

In any case the install is only 3 weeks old and I've tar'd up everything important, so a reinstall isn't going to be too bad.

Thanks


Jim