Problems booting OSX

I've had some strange problems in booting my iBook. When I first turn the computer on, it makes the startup chime and the "loading Mac OSX" screen appears, but then it turns into a plain blue screen. After a minute or so, a text-only screen appears, which says the following:
Darwin/BSD (my-names-ibook-g4.l) (console)
It then prompts for a login and password. When I enter this information, it says the following (substitute "my name" for my first and last names):
Last login: Wed Jul 12 09:57:33 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
my-names-ibook-g4:~ myname$
And then there is a prompt, presumably for me to enter commands. I don't know what commands to enter, though. Does anyone know how I can get the OS to boot properly - preferably without losing the contents of my hard disk or anything like that?
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

Tell him to try pressing and holding the "Option" key during startup, it should start into "Startup Manager" then he can select the Mac OS X volume to start from.
Good Luck!
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