Quote Originally Posted by Kowood
... Where in my Windows 98 partition (hda1) might the MBR be? ....
The MBR is the first sector of the bootable hard drive (normally hda1). It shares this space with the partition table, which is at the end of the sector. It is not part of any Windows partition. There is a boot loader installed at the beginning of a bootable Windows partition, it's usually reached by a small routine that windows installs in the MBR or can be reached by Lilo, Grub or Smart Boot Manager or XOSL (or any other boot loader).

Quote Originally Posted by Kowood
I installed Knoppix to my hdb drive, but several pieces were missing, so I simply cleared the drive. Lilo still comes up, and when it asked me where I wanted it, I chose the MBR. ...... Or is it somewhere else? How do I get rid of Lilo?
If you have installed Lilo to the MBR, you can get rid of it by installing something else over it. The MSDOS command FDISK has an option fdisk /mbr that rewrites the MBR, but fdisk seems to be missing from my XP install. Other boot loaders will install something in the MBR; if you get the installer for Smart Boot Manager you can install that to the MBR (it will fit completely in the MBR) and use that to boot windows and/or Linux. I use SBM or XOSL on systems to load multiple OSs. I find this much cleaner than using Lilo; you just let Lilo install to the Linux partition rather than to the MBR, then you never have to worry about removing Lilo or editing config files and reinstalling it.