After I recompiled the kernel, I reboot the machine, but it hangs at:

INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdNET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
.
Starting NTP server: ntpd.

I thought it was the ntpd init script, and I removed all the links in rc*.d, but the booting process hanged without "Starting NTP server: ntpd."

I don't know what to do. Any help?

shawn

Look at the order of the start scripts - what comes after 'ntpd' and what could go wrong with it?

the script order after ntp is:

S99rc.local -> ../init.d/rc.local
S99rmnologin -> ../init.d/rmnologin
S99stop-bootlogd -> ../init.d/stop-bootlogd

If I use the original kernel, the init process completes OK.

IS the same init scripts the reason?

I tested, it is not the init scripts in run level 2, because scripts are executed successfully.
But what follows init scripts in the boot process to eventually get a login prompt?

The "init" program is ultimately responsible for setting up the login prompt and so on. For example, on Linux the init program processes the /etc/inittab file to set up the various virtual consoles, serial consoles, and dial-in programs. I can't remember the details of the order of things so I don't know if 'inittab' is processed before or after the runlevel init scripts.

Does the computer really hang, or can you still log in via sshd?

Since you say everything works fine with your previous kernel, you should look at the differences in the configuration of your older kernel and your new one.

The problem is resolved. It is the tty that is not configured.
Thank you any way. And the computer does not really hang, I can still log in via ssh.

Shawn