You can say

linux ramdisk=0

at the

LILO:

boot prompt.

However, I doubt that ramdisk is the reason why it fails to open the
initial console.

Nimal R.

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Sumedha Wijeratne wrote:

> While booting after installation, the System hangs-up saying 
> "Unable to open an initial console" after "VFS : Mounted root ...Read only"
> There is another problem, It says "Ramdisk driver installed : 16 Ramdisks 
> of 4096k size" this not possible (32MB RAM). 
> How do you change the No. of Ramdisks ?
> I plan to upgrade this just by installing the base system of RH5.2. Will 
> this solve the problem.
> Thank you
> Sumedha
>