exec of init (/sbin/init) failed

[Barry Yu]

David Curry wrote:

> 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?
>
I haven't done that yet, can you be more specific and tell me what step 
and how to do that - I am inexperient in that at all, I know how to use 
the rescue CD to boot up, but what to do next?