Darwin/BSD message on boot up....

I formatted my drive and installed OSX 10.4 and ran all updates.
Sometimes when i load up the computer it boots up fine.
Other times, it gives me this message
Darwin/BSD (Kind-Videos-Power-Mac-g4.local) (console)
Login:
Why is this????

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