[ale] thinkpad recovery

Jeff Lightner jlightner at water.com
Mon Jan 12 09:53:25 EST 2009


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.

-----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

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin
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