Edgar,
It is strongly recommended that anyone who forgets to tell their bios
that an ide card exists in the system not be using a devel distro.
Although it was wise to at least wait for semifreeze, devel is not a
thing for the weak of heart or queasy of stomache or whatever that
over-used but applicable phrase is supposed to be. Anyway, you can do
what Jason said and try to rebuild lilo by at first prompt pressing f1,
and typing rescue followed by enter (as instructed). then once it is
all up, chroot /mnt and then run 'lilo'.
no, yours wasn't the ideal bug report (in referrence to the first
sentence in your msg), but thank you for your motivated interest in
Mandrake Linux (cooker).
Best regards,
Blue.