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 <[log in to unmask]> 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
>