kernel boot hangs in stage 3 (devfsd pb ??)

[lich]

hi,

After a few infortunate attempts on a powerbook g4, I decided to copy
the kernel (2.6.3-benh2-G4) and its initrd from the live CD in my /boot and go with it.

the kernel hangs with :

| Gentoo initrd startup...
| STEP 1: Command-line parsing
| STEP 2: Module loading
| STEP 3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options
| Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev

Any idea of what might be wrong ??
(my devfsd ??)