INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[Jan Tammen]

Hello again,
I discovered another problem:

After booting my machine (info see below) with a newly compiled kernel
2.4.6, I get the following message on the "first console":

INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes

After 5 minutes the same again ... however, the other consoles are usable
without problems.

Any suggestions? tia, Jan.