Have you followed the instructions in our installation HOWTO? It sounds like you have not. You're probably bumping into firstboot. The only answer is to boot into single user mode--or get sighted assistance. The lack of output during the boot is the rhgb=quiet setting in grub.conf. It's OK to delete that directive. Juan Hernandez writes: > Hi, I installeaving the following problems. > > I just installed fc3, and whenboot for the first time, it starts up ok, but when i get to the line that says hardware sloading or something like that that it says storage, network, audio and once it says ok done, thes creen goes blank. it seems to lock up, I can't hit any keys on themain keyboard, the only keys that work are those of the numpad, I can move around the screen, but thats it. any ideas? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.