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. http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/ 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