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 :) 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.!
