custom kernel init probs

[Florian Struck <florian.struck@t-online.de>]

Hi i have just built my own (first ever =) ) kernel (2.4.18).
Well after about 4 tries (changing adding supports in menuconfig)
i got him boot and it all looks very promising until the point where it inits 
runlevel2 first there is a weird 4 line message about hotplug some comands 
not found (hotplug support is activated in kernel) but it continues loading 
untill it bails out at klogd with following msg:

Mar 10 19:08:00 desktop kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug add 3
Mar 10 19:09:40 desktop init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:09:40 desktop init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:09:40 desktop init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:09:40 desktop init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:09:40 desktop init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:09:40 desktop init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:09:40 desktop init: no more processes left in this runlevel
Mar 10 19:16:21 desktop init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:16:21 desktop init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:16:21 desktop init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:16:21 desktop init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:16:21 desktop init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes
Mar 10 19:16:21 desktop init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
minutes

Thats a snip from my syslog at startup its a little more verbose.
i can only ctrl-alt-del
Any hints?
Florian