Re: install on a X200, ubuntu windows7 but password protected

Matthias Posseldt <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:55:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 18 October 2020 16:38:03 CEST, Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 18 October 2020 14:03:01 CEST, Joerg Bruehe <[email protected]>
>wrote:
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>> 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.
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