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Fedora Core 5 Installation Help

I have installed a fedora core 5 system on a new computer.  Everything seems to go just fine until reboot.  It reboots to the grub command line only.  Is there a way I can get gnome to load from the command line?  I have tried the rescue and that doesn't seem to do any good.  Is there Any way to fix this or just type in a command that will get the rest of it up and running?  I really don't mind typing it in if I can get it to go that way.  I am fairly new at this Linux stuff so please keep that in mind when responding.

Thanks for any help that you can give me.
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I assume You boot into text mode (not grub), so You can log in as root.
Edit /etc/inttab
find line
id:3:initdefault:
change to
id:5:initdefault:
reboot
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it shows

GRUB>

with the cursor flashing.  I tried typing the commands in and it gave me unrecognized command error.
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Turns out I had a bad hard drive.  I had multiple hard drives in the computer and once I replaced the hard drive that was bad everything went ok.  I split the points as I do appreciate all the responses I got.  Thank you.