Uninstalled Grub... Am I Screwed?

I recently installed Gentoo Linux on my desktop, and had it use Grub as a boot loader. I compiled a 2.6 kernel, and realized that I was way more familiar with lilo, so I uninstalled Grub, but then kind of forgot about the whole thing and didn't get around to installing Lilo.

Last night (actually, early this morning) I was awakened by the sound of my UPS kicking in (but I nothing else in the house is showing that we took a power hit?!). It's a $50 UPS, so it's pretty much useless -- I don't get a full minute runtime on it. I grumbled and went back to sleep. At some later time in the night, I heard the BIOS's beeping. Uh oh!

So I pretty much don't have a bootloader... And my computer somehow rebooted itself. I get this on-screen (which I'm not sure how I get if I uninstalled it...?):

"GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 15"

There's not a lot on the box yet, so I'm not too concerned about data loss (and don't want to do something massively complex to recover it). But is there any easy way to somehow get this to boot, or have I just learned an important lesson to not uninstall your boot loader and not promptly install an alternative?

 

 

 

 

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