Disk Boot Failure

I am stumped here maybe somebody can help. I installed Linux on my old pc. Everything went find then it got a "Disk Boot Failure" when it booted. I couldn't figure it out so then I installed Windows 98 and I am getting the same "Disk Boot Failure". I triple checked all the cables and jumpers and am pretty sure they are right. I reset the bios and I do have the hard drive set as a boot device. I can boot off of cds no problem. I just can't seem to boot from the hard drive. The hard drive should be good. I can boot off a cd and can see the files on the hard drive. I even did a fdisk /mbr to overwrite the mbr. Anybody else have any suggestions?

When in doubt check the jumpers for a 4th time. I had the drive set at master instead of single. I am kicking myself I wasted so much time on such a little problem.

We all do it at one time or another, my friend.

And we all feel just as silly for missing something like that.

One of my very best: Spent 3 hours trying to get a friends pc connected to his dialup isp from a hotel with no success.
Called Tech Support.
Used capital letters for two digits and he was connected.
4 hours mainly wasted.
DOH!