Fedora 10 : getting Warning: unable to open initial console

[aliaseldhose]

Hi,
I am trying to install FC 10 to my Dell box (optiplex 320). I had fedora(FC 9 ) installed on the same PC (I had to install lilo, but it was fine).

Now when I reinstalled the system with FC10(x86_64), I am getting following message during the boot up
"Warning: unable to open initial console"
in boot up screen and the system is getting stuck at that point.

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My system model (Dell optiplex 320) won't boot with grub. So I had to install lilo.
Following is the my lilo.conf

boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/System.map-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64
prompt
timeout=50
lba32
default=2.6.27.5-117.fc

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64
label=2.6.27.5-117.fc
append=" clocksource=acpi_pm root=/dev/sda8"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img
read-only

other=/dev/sda1
table=/dev/sda
label=windows
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It will be great if somebody can help me out on this.
Thanks in advance.

Alias Eldhose

[bachtiar]

I am also having this problem.

It seems like LILO loads initrd, but the kernel doesn't see it. It prints:

RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Warning: unable to open initial console.

and hangs.

Fedora 9 used to play well with LILO. I'm stuck in a dead-end because I cannot use grub (it doesn't support dynamic disks). I would greatly appreciate any help.

S

[bachtiar]

large-memory worked for me: https://vb.serverknecht.de/showthread.php?t=178006

[aliaseldhose]

Thanks for your replay.
At last I managed to install Fedora10 32 bit, which works fine with lilo( without the large-memory option). I think for the 64 bit version we will need 'large-memory' in the lilo.conf.