Lilo and Shutdown

[Bryan Coon <nicros INETWORLD NET>]

What is the proper way to shutdown?  I use shutdown -r now, or init, or
reboot- all of which restart my computer and bring me back to the lilo
prompt.  This is fine, except if I want to safely shutdown from linux, I
prefer not to wait for win95 to boot so I can park the hard drive from
there.  Is there a way to truly shutdown from linux?  Or, how do I
configure lilo so that it just boots the dos prompt rather than windows?
This would also be very helpful.
Thanks!
Bryan