Bug#328522: kernel-image-2.4.27-nubus: startup doesn't end in a login prompt but stays in a loop

[Ernest Demaret <ernestdemaret@infinity-box.nl>]

Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-nubus
Version: 2.4.27-10
Severity: important

After loading all daemons and other processes the startup routine ends in:
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

This repeats after 5 minutes and so on. It never reaches the login prompt.
Kernel loads with MkLinux bootloader from HFS partition with no additional mach-options.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Mac 8100/110
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

kernel-image-2.4.27-nubus depends on no packages.

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.4.27-nubus recommends:
ii  kernel-headers-2.4.27-nubus   2.4.27-10  Linux/nubus kernel headers.

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