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Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1
Alsee writes "Welcome to our first real taste of Trusted Computing: With Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate, Service Pack 1 refuses to install on dual boot systems. Trusted Computing is one of the many things that got cut from Vista, but traces of it remain in BitLocker, and that is the problem. The Service Pack patch to your system will invalidate your Trust chain if you are not running the Microsoft-approved Microsoft-trusted boot loader, or if you make other similar unapproved modifications to your system.
The Trust chip (the TPM) will then refuse to give you your key to unlock your own hard drive. If you are not running BitLocker then a workaround is available: Switch back to Microsoft's Vista-only boot mode, install the Service Pack, then reapply your dual boot loader. If you are running BitLocker, or if Microsoft resumes implementing Trusted Computing, then you are S.O.L."
It will detect the lack of a TPM and notify the FBI that you are probably a terrorist.
It's only Windows that doesn't give choice
I have heard that is a feature that we pay extra for.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Good thing I'm running Mojave and not Vista.
MABASPLOOM!
I'm hoping some joker with the next viable vista virus uses it to trigger trusted computing into locking machines.
Lets see vista's adoption rate when word gets out it bricks your entire system if you get a virus.
Probably?
c:\> FDISK /MBR /dev/hda1
Out of Memory
c:\> format c:
Out of Disk Space
c:\> edlin config.sys
File not found
c:\> set PROMPT=$
$ mke2fs
Vista AND Linux ... aren't these something like matter and anti-matter ?
Install on the same drive and the universe implodes !
Vista runs on such ancient machines?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Thy shalth devote wholeheartedly to evil or the good. No point in between.
Your solution to dual-booting is..."get 2 computers"?
If I read TFA correctly, you need to have been using your TPM to experience this problem?
I have not been using my TPM and I was scolded on Monday about not using TPS report coversheets. Are the two related?
Thanks, Peter Gibbons
That's TBD. A meeting is TBA.
TTFN.
No. Common sense would say it's a bug. Tin-foil-hat sense would say, "it is there for the purpose of limiting consumer choice."
Just as about Foxconn's ACPI "bug".
Probably?
Close enough for government work.
If you want karma, be informative rather than funny.
This comment is informative, not funny.
Question everything
Never name a piece of spacegoing hardware anything that rhymes with "trouble".
Also, never trust any technology that rhymes with "busted".
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
You missed that thread above about how Informative is the new Funny. :)
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
Not Buddha. CowboyNeal.
Yes, just buy a 486dx, I'm pretty sure those don't have a TPM module.
Why?
Probably?
Otherwise known as the highest certainty rating in FBI protocol.
Possibly will get you detained. Perchance will only get you interrogated. :)
Please stop stalking me, bro.