hey guys, i hope you can help me here

I was cleaning my computer and accidently pulled the plug. Now it wont boot properly. Its running
RH8 by the way. Here is the error that it is showing up.


INIT: /etc/inittab[40]: id field too long (max 4 characters)

then there is a prompt like the following

Enter runlevel:

if i enter 0 it will go throught the shutdown process but if i enter 5, the following error occurs,
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled or 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled or 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled or 5 minutes

does anyone have any idea what happened here?

thanks in advance