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Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1

Posted by timothy on from the that's-south-of-luckless dept.

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."

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  1. Re:You can use the Vista boot loader by X0563511 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm surprised windows boots! Last time I tried this, windows refused to boot unless it's loader was on the first drive (and the active partition, also).

    All of that was all arbitrary "fuck-you" coding style anyways, and it should have been written flexibly from the start, like Grub.

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    For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
  2. Re:That's why I don't use Vista by mc900ftjesus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow, you sure showed them. Good thing you didn't buy a copy of Vista.... oh wait.

    "Epic Fail" is not original or funny just like Chuck Norris jokes and All Your Base. Parroting other things you find amusing on the Internet is not a good way to be a comedian.

  3. I bet this will be fixed.. by inotocracy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ..in Mojave.

  4. Re:But what if... by ChameleonDave · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Informative gives Karma but Funny doesn't. Therefore, people who appreciate the post and wish to give the user some karma will choose Informative.

    No. People who appreciate the post's humour and wish to give the user karma, and also want to abuse the mod system, will choose something like "Informative". The rest of us will mod it "Funny".

    Not enough is done to prevent mod abuse. The meta-moderation needs to be tweaked so that there is a heavier karma loss for those people whose "informative" or "insightful" moderation is flagged as invalid on posts which are also modded "funny".

    If the integrity of the system is not protected, then it might as well be all simplified to "+1 Like" and "-1 Hate".