Error message on what seems to be a 'black screen of death"?

I turned on my Mac Mini yesterday and got this error message on one line of text on an otherwise empty black screen "June 29 XX:XX:XX launchd can't exec/bin/sh for single user no such file or directory" (the XX's likely to indicate exact time of boot attempt). I turned the Mini back on and several attempts yielded the same result - the exact same error message every time. I'm concerned that something has gone very wrong. Anyone who can help, that would be most appreciated, thank you.

Try starting up from the DVD that came with the mini and run Disk Utility from the DVD. It will scan the mini's hard drive for corruption in the file system. Hopefully it will find something that can be repaired and restore the mini back to health.

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