IMac startup then screen turns into blue "maintenance"

Last night I tried ti start my Imac ,starts up fine then the screen turns blue with big message says "maintenance" can't do anything this message stays on all the time I tried to restart like 10 times but nothing happens just comes back to the same message, what can I do please help me
iMac Mac OS X (10.5)

I have done a re-install of OSX and all is fine now. Thanks

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