BugZRevengE's Journal: No boot

I have been working on our new web/database server to replace our existing one, it runs slackware.
After 3 weeks of configuration and re-writing web applications to work on the new server, and system (the old server had mail and proxy as well as web and database), I rebooted, only to get a message that the server will not boot... Doh!

Loading boot disks told me that the partition info had gone... I have not backed up yet... it is a new system and I had not got backup working and it is not yet live! I was rebooting to start the initial backup!

I have now found gpart - I should have printed out the partition info, again had not got to the documentation of the system part of the process - deadlines, switching between old and new projects, etc... anyway gpart is supposed to tell me the new partition types, I hope it does, or else I think I might just curl up and die... blind fdisk is my only other option

gpart has been going for some time, I have no idea how long the scan is supposed to take... will write more when it is done!