Re: install on a X200, ubuntu windows7 but password protected
Matthias Posseldt <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:55:20 +0200
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On 18 October 2020 16:38:03 CEST, Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 18 October 2020 14:03:01 CEST, Joerg Bruehe <[email protected]> >wrote: > > >> While I haven't used Veracrypt, Windows Bitlocker should also work. >It >> can be setup to ask for a password on boot. > >To get that straight, this protection provides booting *any* OS or just >Windows? > >I mean the linux user, who does not know this password still could boot >the linux partion? The Bitlocker protection applies only to the Windows partition, so password prompt would be after Grub bootloader. Bitlocker is about encryption, so just a boot password is not the use case. -- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad