Linux messed up partitions

[Jingleheimer]

I am an extreme newbie to Linux and I just tried to install Linux-Mandrake last night as a dual operating system to my Win98. Everything went fine through the install, it was when I rebooted after the install that gave me problems. Now, upon booting up, about half-way through the process before it gives me any choices for which operating system to use, I get a constant string of zeroes and ones (010101010101) scrolling down the screen forever. I'm making a startup disk today at work to see if I can get into DOS. I told the installation to use my free space on my hard drive for the Linux partition. However, I have a feeling this messed things because my hard drive is actually two hard drives that are striped together with RAID. Once I get into DOS, will I be able to reset my linux partition to be the way it was before I installed Linux (in other words, revert to the way I had it before Linux). I'm scared that if I repartition again, I will lose everything on my PC. This WOULDN'T be good!!! Please help as am I extremely worried at the moment. I'm using an ABIT KT7-RAID with 850 Athlon. My hard drives are (2) IBM Deskstar 75 GXP 30Gb.

Thanks,
Jon

 

[Viper0329]

if i remember correctly, the partition for linux can't save data on the hd, like it must be unpartioned space a or a new hd. Im not sure tho.

What bothers me is why u get binary scrolling....

 

[Shuja]

It is quite misfortunate ot have such dump stacks. there may be problem with your hardware. Linux can not be installed other than intel based PCs (AGP Card, Processor etc.). You must install WIN98 all over on your HDD which may not have much of your valuable data by making it bootable primary master