Issue

When mounting and ext3 filesystem with the noload mount option the mount will fail with the following error:

# mount -t ext3 -o noload /dev/device /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/device,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Checking with dmesg | tail shows some more details:

ext3: No journal on filesystem on /dev/device

or

EXT3-fs (device): error: no journal found. mounting ext3 over ext2?