[Gllug] Unusual motherboard

[Christopher Hunter]

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 13:21 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> Hello,
>    I have been given a secondhand box with a small VIA-C3-1500 motherboard
> carrying a very small hard-mounted processor that could be an ARM chip. The
> only thing I have discovered is that it is probably designed as a dedicated
> POS box. There are two CD drives and a hard disc but it displays "Mercury"
> then boots with an error message "missing NTLDR". Any ideas please?

You're missing the NT Boot Loader!  This is used to start NT4, 2000 and
XP (can't vouch for "Vista").

C.


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