Kernel panic

[satimis at writeme.com (Stephen Liu)]

Hi all folks,

When starting RH7.3 the screen hanged on :
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel.

Used rescue disk to start trying to mount without success.

# fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Block Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 7 794 6329610 83 Linux
/dev/hdc3 795 826 257040 82 Linux swap

Created a mount point

# mkdir /mnt/rescue
# mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/rescue
mount: Mounting /dev/hdc2 on /mnt/rescue failed:Device or Resource busy

# mount
rootfs on /type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root.old on /type ext2 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/pts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/tmp/cdrom on .mnt/source type iso9660 (rw)
/tmp/loop0 on /mnt/runtime type ext3 (rw)
/tmp/hdc2 on /mnt/sysimage type ext3 (rw)
/tmp/hdc1 on /mnt/sysimage/boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /mnt/sysimage/dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /mnt/sysimage/proc type proc (rw)

# fsck
Warning: Couldn't open /etc/fstab : no such file or directory
e2fsck 1:27 (8-mar-2002)
/: recovering journal
/: clean, 102828/791840 files, 491473/1582402 blocks

Kindly advise how to fix this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Stephen Liu