If your motherboard is set up to boot from CD and the "Boot" CD is still
in the drive, it might give out that message. Pop the CD out and see what
happens. If you determine your boot block really is clobbered,
we can tell you how to replace it.
I doubt, at this point, that a virus is to blame.
I installed Debian from the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine. The
computer is a Pentium 200 with 4Gb partitioned into a Win95 half and
Linux partitions. Everything went well until I installed Loadlin to
boot Linux from Win95 Boot prompt (following the instructions in
Loadlin+Win95 mini-HOWT
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