Fedora Users — kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Dear All,

I downloaded the Fedora Core 3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.667) ISO CDs from the following link.

I burn the CDs. I installed the Fedora Core 3 in an Intel Machine. It was working fine.

Now I want to build the 2.6.6 kernel image. Then I downloaded the kernel tar file from the following link. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.6.tar.gz

After that I did the following steps.

1. I copied the downloaded tar file to the /usr/src directory.

2. I un tar the downloaded tar file.

3. I changed the owner to ROOT by

#chown -R root:root /usr/src/linux-2.6.6

After this I compiled the kernel by the following steps.

4. #make menuconfig - to creating the config file

5. #make clean

6. #make bzImage

Now I changed the EXTRAVERSION in Makefile

7. #make modules

8. #make modules_install

9. #make install - this will copy the bzImage file to /boot

directory and also updates the menu.list

i.e. grub.conf file and copies System.map file etc.

Every thing goes fine. After rebooting the system through this new kernel image I got the following error messages and system halted.

Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting

Enforcing mode requested but no policy loaded. Halting now.

Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

I succeeded in building the new kernel image, but un succeeded in booting from the new image.

I tried 2 to 3 times. I got the same error.

What am I doing wrong here? Please advice me with right one.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Srinivas G