[lug] error loading operating system

[Zan Lynx]

On 3/4/2011 6:13 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
>> On 3/4/2011 1:30 PM, Chuck Morrison wrote:
>>> er, I meant to say install <grub> to the mbr or first partition.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Chuck Morrison <chuck.morrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On that same line of thought, did your opensuse install to the mbr or
>>>> the first partition ? My guess is it needs to be on the mbr.
>>
>> Although if you want to dual boot with Vista or Windows 7 you will need
>> to make the Windows bootloader first on the MBR and use it to chain-load
>> GRUB. There are instructions for this online.
>>
>> Otherwise, the Microsoft DRM code will fail to validate and you won't be
>> able to do things like play Bluray or use MS disk encryption. I'm not
>> sure Windows will load at all, actually.
> 
> I've never heard of such. I have always put grub in the MBR and
> chained to the Windows boot loader to load windows as described in one
> of the posts to this thread.
> 
> 

I am still sure that the Windows Protected Path and Bitlocker stuff will
not work if NTLDR is not the very first thing to load.

Now after a bit of Googling, it looks possible that's only true if the
system is using a TPM chip. But if there *is* a TPM chip then putting
NTLDR first on the MBR is required.