kernel hangs after trying to free unused memory.

["Jon Helsten" <jon_helsten@hotmail.com>]

hello,
i am running a potato version of debian.  I have just compiled a new 2.2.17 
kernel with kernel-package and make-kpkg. i executed the following commands 
as per the  README  file.
make config
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --revision=cutom.1 kernel_image

then

dpkg -i kernel_image.deb (or something) using the defaults.

rebooting starts and then hangs here...

Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed

then it just hangs with a solid cursor.
if any one knows what this symptom might indicate, i would appreciate it.
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