"Andrew McCall" <andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I seem to remember BeOS, around about the time of PE, had the ability > to load from within Windows or Linux. You could type load-beos or > something in Linux, or select an icon from the Start menu within > Windows. AFAIR this only worked in DOS (ie. also in Windows 95) because it let you do anything. In real operating systems, you just don't have the rights to do so without writing (and installing, ie. rebooting) an additional hardware driver which can grant you all the rights you'd need. Also, you probably would still want to properly shutdown that real OS first. Bye, Axel.