boot time: break of 4 minutes

[R.L.Reingard]

> Am 15.10.2005, 16:26 Uhr, schrieb Duncan Anderson  
> <duncangareth at yahoo.co.uk>:

>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:51:06PM +0200, list.account at gmx.net wrote:
>> 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)?

> I would do as Derrick suggests, or change the entry in fstab to read  
> "ext2" instead of "ext3", but this would be something of a retrograde

in fstab there is 'ext2', because the system got installed on a  
ext2-partition.
why is there a scanning for a journaling filesystem if the the whole  
system is on a ext2-partition??