Re: Dual Boot on Windows Mobile device

2008-05-13 Thread Pau Oliva
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 07:22 -0500, Paul Shirey wrote: > We all know that dual boot setups are possible on a pc. But would it be > possible on a Windows Moblile device? > Generally you use GNU Haret for that: http://handhelds.org/~koconnor/haret/ http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET There a

RE: Dual Boot on Windows Mobile device

2008-05-12 Thread Kwon, Owen
If you are talking about ARM based device, I think it would be possible by modifying bootloader slightly because each OS uses predefined part of Flash storage usually. However, is there any lisence issue with MS in that case? Thanks, Owen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

Re: Dual Boot on Windows Mobile device

2008-05-12 Thread Tobin Davis
It is entirely possible, if the hardware is sufficient enough to support dual booting. There are a lot of devices that are targeted for the low cost market, and to meet that, they incorporate a small SSD for data storage (4-16G). Systems like the Eee PC from Asus are capable of running both Wind

Re: Dual Boot on Windows Mobile device

2008-05-12 Thread Emmet Hikory
Paul Shirey wrote: > We all know that dual boot setups are possible on a pc. But would it be > possible on a Windows Moblile device? It very much depends on the device hardware. A fair number of existing models support some form of alternate booting, either directly from some physical device,