Kernel Panic - Not syncing

[junuih]

i just finished update Fedora Core 3, then its hang. I reboot it manually and then its stuck (hang). Please help me, i'm a new user... below are the boot sequence and error msg for yor references

Booting Command-List
root (hd1,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Kernel /vmLinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root =/dev VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x155da5]
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
[linux-initrd@0x17ef4000, 0xebfc7 bytes]

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel
audit (1107559803.849:0): initialized
Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lym2
2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!:2
umount /initrd/dev failed:2
Kernel Panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init

[nokru]

I have the same problem. I am quit new in linux world, just installed couple a days a go fedora 3, i all so have win xp on diferent hard drive in a dual boot configuration. Fedora worked fine for a couple a days then this happend. I am preety sure I did not do any thing stupid. I' ve heard that this could be a bug in fedora 3 but I could not find solution. If any one knows solution or how to a void this pleaese help Thx

[smindinvern]

It appears that it cannot execute the init sequence, which is odd since you say that it worked fine for a few days. Did you happen to shut down your comp improperly at all. It may have been corrupted, I suggest booting with knoppix or damn small linux to make sure that the /sbin/init script still exists and works, if that's not where it's stored, you need to add init=/path-to-init in the kernel arguments, you can do this from the grub boot screen by pressing 'a' at the menu.