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You're going to kick yourself for this one.  There is a MUCH simpler way.  
When you install Mandrake (or Corel, or whatever), do the customized 
install and tell it not to install LILO or any other bootloader.  Then set 
up Windows' config.sys to give you a customized boot menu.  When you want 
linux, it just fires up a program called loadlin.exe.  Works great.  That's 
assuming you don't want to hose your mbr again.  

But since you are switching to Mandrake, you'd probably like Grub.  Grub 
will do the same thing for you (customized boot menu) automatically.  That 
is, if you have Windows installed FIRST, Mandrake will recognize this and 
give you a custom boot menu (GRUB) when you install it.  It works great.  
It DOES overwrite your mbr, but it replaces it with a custom boot menu, so 
you don't lose windows.  I think you'd like it.  You can specify a default 
OS and time delay so that (if you want) Grub will  automatically load 
windows after X seconds, unless you tell it to boot linux.  Or, the other 
way around . . . your choice.  But if you really don't want to mess with 
the mbr, directions follow.  -Dave

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95.html
(pay close attention to section 6.2)

PS:  You will find that your second hard disk is actually HDC (not HDB)

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Why can't one boot from /dev/hdb?  [grub, or lilo]

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