[ale] thinkpad recovery

[Jeff Lightner]

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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