ahmet alper parker wrote: > Why kindly supply some more technical answer > instead of joking? > > In theory ReactOS ntoskrnl can be loaded by ntldr from Windows 2003. Together with reactos hal it might actually "boot" (for a low enough value of boot). You would also need reactos ntdll, as it's specific to the system calls in the kernel. Next thing is the file system driver, you will probably not have any luck loading the native ones, due to missing functionality. Then there is win32k, which on Windows expects to be loaded in session space, which ReactOS ntoskrnl doesn't support. So you will be stuck with reactos one, too. Then the rest of the win32 subsystem works differently in reactos then in Windows, loading the windows one together with reactos win32k is not possible either. This will affect at least gdi32, user32, csrss and kernel32.dll. So you already ended up with half of reactos anyway. Furthermore I doubt that the Windows registry hives - though they could be read - would fit either our kernel or win32 subsystem very well.
To make it short: No, it won't work, unless you are a highly skilled NT kernel hacker with lots of spare time. Regards, Timo _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
