Hello On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:55 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello folks. > > i am using slackware linux(2.6.14 with reiser4 patch) on x86_64 and was > trying to install free_bsd on a separate partition. > well, during that instalation , accedentualy i have pressed a wrong key , so > my partition table is owerriten by something else , but i realized this > streight away and stopped the instalation process . > > so in fac rigth now i ve got around 200GiB of data , all mushed up . there > were 11 linux partitions without raid. > many of thoes were reiserfs and reiser4. > > i have found on some linux distro's mailing list that the boot sector's > backup made by the LILO should contain the table . i'm not 100% sure of that > , but i believe it must do . > > so basicaly i have this backup file, but it exists somewhere in betweent all > that mess on my drive . > > now the question is how to recover that file ? > > obviously i have tried gpart , wich was updated last time back in 1999 , so > could find only my swap part'ion :) >
You might want to try newer gpart > i also read about magicrescue on this list's archive ..but the file i need > seems to be binary and i'm still not sure dies it contain the table or just > the LILO code . > > Can anybody help please , because i think that this 99.(9)% recoveriable ! > . > thank you anyway.! > >
