[openbeos] Re: Booting to Haiku from another OS...

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:08:06 +0200 CEST

"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.


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