did you rerun lilo? The config is only used when you use the command "lilo" to install the boot loader, and make sure that it doesn't give you any errors.....
Could be a iffy floppy disk, try another one and see if that makes it better.
re-running lilo should fix it.
I don't know what the linux part should look like exactly because I don't know what mandrake named the kernel and if it needs to load a initrd thingie and stuff like that.
Even if it's pointing at the wrong kernel or pointing at the wrong partition then it still should give you something other then L 99 99 99 99 99 99.... type of stuff.
Try using a different floppy disk...
you have XP on the first disk right? Then you could try install lilo to /dev/sbb if you can select in the bios which HD to boot from. In my bios I can boot hit f8 during post and select which drive to boot from, maybe you can do something similar from yours.
I did a search on google and found mandrake users running into the L 99 99 99 thing.
here
maybe try to clean off the floppy disk with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0"
That will overwrite the floppy disk with zeros, if it gives errors then it's probably a bad floppy.
Then format the floppy
fdformat /dev/fd0
mkfs -t fat /dev/fd0 to format it into a dos floppy. (or use -t ext2 option to make it linux)
Then try the lilo thing.
heres from Lilo's man page:
BOOT ERRORS
The boot process takes place in two stages. The first
stage loader is a single sector, and is loaded by the BIOS
or by the loader in the MBR. It loads the multi-sector
second stage loader, but is very space limited. When the
first stage loader gets control, it types the letter "L";
when it is ready to transfer control to the second stage
loader it types the letter "I". If any error occurs, like
a disk read error, it will put out a hexadecimil error
code, and then it will re-try the operation. All hex
error codes are BIOS return values, except for the lilo-
generated 40, 99 and 9A. A partial list of error codes
follows:
00 no error
01 invalid disk command
0A bad sector flag
0B bad track flag
20 controller failure
40 seek failure (BIOS)
40 cylinder>1023 (LILO)
99 invalid second stage index sector (LILO)
9A no second stage loader signature (LILO)
AA drive not ready
FF sense operation failed
Error code 40 is generated by the BIOS, or by LILO during
the conversion of a linear (24-bit) disk address to a geo?
metric (C:H:S) address. On older systems which do not
support lba32 (32-bit) addressing, this error may also be
generated. <b>Errors 99 and 9A usually mean the map file (-m
or map=) is not readable, likely because LILO was not re-
run after some system change, or there is a geometry mis-
match between what LILO used (lilo -v3 to display) and
what is actually being used by the BIOS (one of the lilo
diagnostic disks, available in the source distribution,
may be needed to diagnose this problem).</b>
Try posting you lilo.conf (copy it to your floppy) and see if we can spot the problem if any.
May be that your bios can't read the files from the second SCSI disk... could be a bios limitation.