Stuck in unix command line during start-up. Help please.

I have an iBook G3 running on 10.3.9 (opaque, 16 VRAM).
After experiencing a number of freezes and crashes, I was having problems starting up with the system on the hard drive. I booted up with Disk Warrior 3.0 and it told me my directory was severely damaged so I rebuilt it using Disk Warrior.
After it was successfully rebuilt, I quit DW and re-booted. When the computer restarted first I got the usual gray screen with the Apple logo and the moving gear wheel. After about 20 seconds the screen becomes black with the following text in white in the upper left corner: "local host: / root #" and then a white cursor mark. I have repeatedly tried to re-boot but get the same black screen and text. I booted with the original OS X install disk and used Disk Utility to repair permissions but I still get the black screen and white test on start-up.
I don't know what to do. Please help!
Thank you very much,
Bob

Hi Robert,
Welcome to Discussions.
You need to run some fsck commands, as detailed in this Apple Document.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Have a read and then scroll down to use fsck
regards roam

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