boot time: break of 4 minutes

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hello,
at boot time the system stays at least for 4 minutes at:

boot
Uncompressing Linux.... Ok, booting the kernel
audit (xxxxxxxxx): initialized
Starting Ubuntu.....

then after 4 minutes the next line is:

ext3: no journal on the filesystem on hda

after this all goes normal.

Ubuntu got installed with ext2 on its partition.
is this a problem?
can i take out a line / step in the boot procedure (and where)?

thank you for that help,
René