[NTLUG:Discuss] install problems on system with multiple IDE drives

[fredjame]

This one is new to me, and I am stumped
Dell Dimension XPF T700r is the original box, though this is the nth 
regeneration of same
It is a PIII 700Mhz, with 448 MB memory, and three Maxtor hard drives 
installed
On the primary IDE (ATA 66) on the mother board: the primary is a 10GB 
5T060H6, and the secondary is a 60GB 51054H2 - cable is 80 wire.
On the primary (#1) connector an ATA 133 IDE card, the primary is a 
200GB LTN301 - no secondary here - cable is 80 wire.
They were installed to be that way, and the BIOS seems them that way, 
however, when installing Linux (Mandrake 9.1), they are seen during 
partitioning as
- hda - 55GB
- hdb - 10GB
- hde - 189GB
and I get a curious set of results when I complete the install, and the 
system tries to reboot for the first time.  No matter where I put the / 
and /boot partitions, the bootloader cannot seem to find a system to 
boot.  Also, (a) I select LILO for a bootloader and the boot time screen 
stop after displaying "Grub Loading stage 2.."; (b) I select Grub for a 
bootloader and the boot time screen stops after displaying "LI" or "LILO"

Any suggestions or insight would be most welcome and appreciated.

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