Choosing to "reinstall the bootloader" option fails for my purpose. The following details the scenario i just performed manually. Basically, i had to backup my entire "/" and then reformatted my install partition and then copied the entire "/" back to the partititon. I then had to re-install lilo.
Scenario:
1) have an xfs partition at /dev/hde1 containing all of "/"
2) cp -ax /* /mnt/{alternate backup hdd}
deleted and re-formated /dev/hde1 and reboot using mandrake82 cdrom#1
using the F1 & rescue process.
1) recreated an xfs partition on /dev/hde1
2) mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/disk
3) mount /dev/hdh1 /mnt/disk2 (the hdd that contains the backup of "/")
2) cp -ax /mnt/{alternate backup hdd}/* /mnt/disk2
I then created a small script in /boot that contains the following line:
#!/bin/bash
echo 'image=vmlinuz-smp append="devfs=mount" root=/dev/hde1
initrd=initrd-smp.img' | ../sbin/lilo -C - -b /dev/hde -i ./boot.b -m
./map -s ./boot.b -d60
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