Kernel panic on boot, exec of init (/sbin/init) failed: No such file or directory
Issue
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 server cannot boot and shows the following error message:
exec of init (/sbin/init) failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init
- Boot the server using the install ISO and running linux rescue mode
- chroot /mnt/sysimage and get the following error messages:
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/sh`: no such file or directory
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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