exec of init (/sbin/init) failed

[David Curry]

Barry Yu wrote:

> One of my machine broke downn during the process of updating (with 
> yum), I had to reboot and during the booting up in level 3 a message 
> displayed;
>
> exec of init (/sbin/init) failed !!!: 2
> umount /initrd/dev  failed: 2
> kernel panic - not syncing. Attempted to kill init!
>
> And the machine just freezes right there!
> I powered it down and start it again, same thing happened - FC3 is 
> completely down.
> Any solution? Tks
>
Have you tried booting from a rescue CD or the installation CD1 and 
examining your init files?