[ale] thinkpad recovery

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Mon Jan 12 11:32:23 EST 2009


Jeff Lightner wrote:
> How sure are you that boots from rescue CD are actually going to the CD?
> Have you verified boot order in the BIOS?  Maybe it is ignoring the CD
> altogether.

It is booting from the cd.  I've got the bios set properly.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:27 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] thinkpad recovery
> 
> Robert Coggins wrote:
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>> If I boot from the rescue partition or from the rescue disk, I'm 
>>> prompted for a password.  If I enter either of the known user 
>>> ids/passwords on this box, I get the following error message:
>>>
>>> "The user had not been enrolled with the Client Security Solution.
> Only
>>> enrolled users may log on or recover their password/passphrase."
>>>
>>> Catch 22???
>>>
>> Could this be something in the TPM and not the OS its self?  If so, it
>> may be an older password the user had...
> 
> TPM??
> 
> All the research I've done, responses are always "contact Lenovo, we 
> can't help you crack a password."
> 


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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