[Centos] trouble installing CentOS

greetings, We are a couple of new CentOS users here. We have previous
experience with RH and FC installations. Now we'd like to move up in the
world to CentOS.

We successfully installed the 3-CD set of CentOS-3 on a laptop this
weekend. When the script instructed us to remove the installation media
and reboot, we did that and then the system hung after text was
displayed showing the stopping and restarting of the processes.

(Background: We had to use the nofb option during the installation. I
wonder if there's some way to pass that option to the kernel when we
reboot, so as to get the final post-installation configuration script to
work?)

We think we might have a functional CentOS laptop now, but it's just
hanging somewhere in the reboot sequence because of problems with the
framebuffer and/or X.

Has anyone had a problem like this before? (and solved it? :-) )

-- TIA, TT