[newbie] Fips

[John and Veronica]

I used fips to re-partition my hard drive for linux.  I created I
created a 1.5G partition and installed linux on that. I had the
installation install Lilo on the MBR, but when I was done I could only
boot to my linux side. In fact, I could only see the empty part of my
original partition when I booted from a floppy.  when I did the restorb
thing everything came back to normal but now I have to start over with
the installation of linux.  Any ideas as to what I did wrong?