Just come across this myself.
Installing on a friends laptop, it freezes in the same spot, I can shut it down and start it up again, it it does forced checks on the HD's (which I dont mind) and finds tons of errors that it correct (which I dont like so much)
KDE was the only installed GUI
It never did this on my box. Wierd
Edit: It does start normally after the two mandatory checks, it's just a little annoying.
Edit again: Just re did it and all I get is the cmd line. I did a 9.2 -> 10.0 upgrade and it claws its way into existance, but the cd's wont mount and networking is a pain.