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I've been playing with the idea of installing a second hd. Will both hard drives show automatically on the boot screen so i can choose which one to boot?

No. Bootloaders are not about hard drives.

Maybe i didn't formulate the question correctly:
Say i install another OS or another Salix 1337 version on the second hd, i won't be able to choose which OS i want to launch?

You will be possible to have both. But you need to specify it.
Do you actually use lilo or grub2 ?

I use the default Lilo with Salix.
I want to install the Ratpoison Salix version on the second hd, during the installation, do i install Lilo again on the second hd? Thanks...

No you don't.
Then boot to your actual Salix edition. Note the root partition where your ratpoison edition is installed (/dev/sdb1 for exemple), then edit /etc/lilo.conf, duplicate the entry about your current Salix entry and modify the root parameter accordingly. In my example, setting it to /dev/sdb1.
Then type : When you reboot, you will have the choice to boot to your current installation, or to your new ratpoison edition.

Thanks buddy!

You can also use Lilo Setup

It's working perfectly! Thanks to both of you, i must say the lilo setup was a bit confusing to me, so i did it manually
I named it Linuxrat, pointed it to sdb1, lilo -v, and away we went. I'm really happy! Thanks guys

This time i used cfdisk to partition (/,/home) use swap from the original install, chose JFS for the files system, it seems smoother.