After checking to make sure the partition was active according to Bob's
suggestion, I figured that it was because I was using a Win98 boot disk to
fdisk and reformat, and not the ones that came with dos 6.22. After I did
that, the computer booted fine. Thanks for all your help everyone.

> hmm... could be that drive parameters are incorrectly set or were
> incorrectly set on the machine the HD was created on, copy them
> exactly from BIOS to BIOS...
>
> if this was a second drive in the orig. system, it could be an inactive
> partition... use any partition manager - I believe FDISK is good - to
> activate it.

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