Hi, I'm running SL 6 on a Dell Optiplex 980 and I also had a blank screen after installation.
In my case, the problem was due to using a relatively new NVIDIA graphics card. The work around was to modify the kernel boot options: delete "quiet" and add "nomodeset". Then, I downloaded and installed the latest binary NVIDIA drivers from the NVIDIA site. That solved the problem. Alternatively, you can boot in level 3 (add "3" to the list of kernels options) and install the binary NVIDIA drivers. Hope that helps, Paulo On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Bill Askew <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried to do a install of 5.5 and 5.4 on this same system. The anaconda > > graphical install wizard did not come up and the screen went blank. > I installed using the text interface and the install finished but, > Like in your case, starting X hangs the system. > I worked around this issues by installing 5.0 the updating to 5.5 > > Just thought I would post to the community that there is still an issue > > with 5.5 and that I also got a hang when using the graphical installation > > interface. > > Cheers >
