I have a white screen whilst downloading Yosemite onto my Mac. What should I do??

I Have a white screen after downloading & installing Yosemite. What should I do now???

First of all, wait and give it some time. It might be rebuilding the disk. Sometimes, it takes a little time for the busy indicator to come up.
If there is no change in 5 min., reboot with the option key pressed. This will make the mountable recovery partition visible. You can select it and boot into it, then use Disk Utlity to try to check and repair your boot volume.
If there is no recovery HD, boot while pressing CMD-R. You need to be in a place with a network connected to the internet. If you are, you can boot recovery tools over the internet, and restore your system. Depending on the speed of your network connection, this can take a while (even hours....).
It is useful to have a backup of your system using a USB drive. These are inexpensive. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to maintain a copy of your main disk. You can boot from the USB drive, and repair your internal volume, and even completely restore it, should trouble arise.

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