Error message found while booting and boot process is stopped

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Issue

  • Seeing the following error message while booting which halts the boot process
INIT: No inittab file found
INIT: Entering runlevel: 1
INIT: no more processes left at this runlevel

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • SysVinit

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