The system cannnot be booted with "Kernel Panic : exec of init (/sbin/init) failed"
Issue
The system cannnot be booted. It fails with the error message
exec of init (/sbin/init) failed !!!: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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