Problems with freeze up during reboot

So I’ve never worked with Suse before, but I have worked/installed a couple other linux distros before without any problems.

I’m installing on a xeon quad core, some guy in the area built it for us.

Here’s what I did:

  1. Checked the install software, and that checked out, so it proceeded to install

  2. Used suggested partitioning

  3. Installed packages, etc.

  4. Sent up reboot countdown, then went to text based reboot and froze

It says:

Loading installed kernel using kexec

Trying to load installed kernel via kexec instead of rebooting

Please wait

And here I wait, and wait, and wait…

suggestions?