Thanks, I'm back in Mandrake. I did
# mkdir /mnt/tmp and then # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/tmp and then found /etc/lilo.conf at /mnt/tmp/etc/lilo.conf Vi was acting a little sickly, but I was able to delete the bad stanza. Thanks all, SW
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