Hi, all...

I ended up taking the brute-force approach, id est:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d

That certainly cleared out the remnants of LILO... :) Of course, I had to
restore again afterwards, but that's the price I pay for being untrue to
the faith... :)

Thanks, everyone, for the help!

-- 
Mason Loring Bliss..mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us..acheron.dyn.ml.org/mason
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
  dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;