BugZRevengE's Journal: Recovered

gpart almost worked, it recovered enough that i could manually repartition my drive correctly, and after lilo, the system booted and all is well...

Just let me say - always keep a copy of what your system returns when running:
fdisk -l
and:
fdisk -u -l
this displays as sectors not cylinders

This will help greatly with recovery - print it and file it, or at least store on another system, which is backed up!

Always remember - do not try to reinstall the system without this happening, and even when setting up a system, backup, backup, backup...