What I would guess happened is somehow your IDE channels got reversed. This an option designed for those (like myself) who have their main disk drives on an offboard IDE controller. On a "normal" setup, the motherboards onboard IDE controller's two channels would be ide0 and ide1, and any offboard controllers (which, on a laptop, you would most likely not have) would have channels ide2 and ide3. If the option to reverse the IDE channels is selected, ide0 is swapped with ide2, as are ide1 and ide3. This also affects the drive device ids.
The reason why this wouldn't bother DOS/Windows is that dos/windows automatically renumbers devices. Since the CD-ROM is still the second IDE device on your box, it will still show up as D:
RedHat has a program called Kudzu that probes for changes like that... It's reall good at popping up at boot time with messages like (The Cdrom Drive at XX has been removed yes?? /// There is a new cdrom drive at YYYY Yes??)
I'm surprised that mandrake doesn't have something similar.
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