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Thanks bvc, the partition is still there, it just got formatted and is now empty. Not familiar with the -i option on parted. I have only used it to recover partition tables. Ix, everything was going normal until I rebooted after using drakX(?) to rename partitions on hdb and resized and formatted /hdb/boot. My mistake for taking the easy way out and trusting that thing. In rescue mode, I chroot /mnt and /boot is empty. No config, initrd, vmlinuz, nothing.

After formatting /boot on hdb, I was dismayed to find the hda /boot was also wiped clean (no boot floppy either). Is there any way of "rescueing" this mess without reinstalling to get all the files I need.