<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:list.account@gmx.net">list.account@gmx.net</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="midop.sym13gz23zxjux@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> 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 </blockquote> Can you change the /etc/fstab file so that that mount point is set to type ext2 rather than ext3? It sounds like those four minutes are probably spent scanning the disk, looking for the journal (just guessing really). Ideally, you should change the filesystem to ext3. This is easily done, but I can't remember the commands off the top of my head. Either method might help you out here. Tim </body> </html>