Mounting a RHLinux 7.1 partition

From: Isaac Grover (isaac.grover_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/31/05

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    Good morning everyone,

    Due to a hardware failure on my RHLinux 7.1 gateway, I have chosen to
    install FreeBSD 5.4 as my new gateway's operating system. The hard
    drive didn't die fortunately, as I did test it on another system to
    make sure it booted, and aside from kudzu complaining about some new
    and missing hardware, everything was there.

    Once I had FreeBSD 5.4 set up, I put the RHLinux drive in the FreeBSD
    machine as primary slave. Manually mounting the drive didn't seem to
    work since I could find which /dev/ entry the RHLinux drive ended up
    on, and of course fdisk wouldn't help for the same reason. So I
    pulled the RHLinux drive from the FreeBSD machine, set it up as
    primary master on another machine, and was going to do the necessary
    file copies over the network. However, now it boots up with the
    FreeBSD menu, giving me one option (F1) to boot FreeBSD, and pressing
    F1 yields a beep from the PC speaker, and no boot.

    What happened to my RHLinux MBR and how can I either: 1) restore the
    MBR or 2) retrieve my data?

    Thanks in advance, 

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