I live in dual boot hell? Sure I am a newbie but this has got to get better with time so I think!

I have xp pro running  then I installed Mandriva 2006 in a clean partition.

Everything went well but when I rebooted I got nothing but zeros and one across my monitor screen.

I don't know what I did wrong? To get my computer running I had to use the xp recovery console and run "FXMBR" but I cannot

get to my Mandriva 2006 partition.

Can anyone on the list give some insights on what to do when you install a dual boot computer.

Thanks

Mike Enriquez newbie