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Tasting the Ice Cream SandwichTasting the Ice Cream SandwichPosted May 21, 2012 6:48 UTC (Mon) by djao (subscriber, #4263)In reply to: Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich by Cyberax Parent article: Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich The link that I provided in the comment to which you replied contains exactly a description of how to permanently disable driver signing checks on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows OSes. Did you bother to read the page that I linked? The whole page? I think it's hardly fair to blame Microsoft for Blu-ray not working. Does Blu-ray work in Linux? No. Blu-ray is the fault of the entertainment companies. All I'm proposing is the very modest suggestion that Microsoft is not 100% at fault for absolutely every single one of Linux's problems. Apparently this claim is too radical for some around here.
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Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich Posted May 21, 2012 9:29 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
>The link that I provided in the comment to which you replied contains exactly a description of how to permanently disable driver signing checks on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows OSes. Did you bother to read the page that I linked? The whole page?
I can ask you the same. Have YOU read it?
>You can’t permanently disable the use of signed drivers in the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 — at least, not using any Microsoft-recognized technique.
And undocumented DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS is disabled in final releases of Microsoft OSes (it's enabled in previews). You can try it yourself.
But what do I know? After all, I'm only writing Windows drivers.
Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich Posted May 21, 2012 17:40 UTC (Mon) by djao (subscriber, #4263) [Link] And undocumented DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS is disabled in final releases of Microsoft OSes (it's enabled in previews). You can try it yourself.I did try it, just now, not more than 10 minutes ago, on my retail release version of Windows Server 2008 R2. And here is the result. As you can see, it works. You do not have to press F8 every time you reboot; the screenshot was taken from a clean reboot done without user interaction.
Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich Posted May 22, 2012 22:00 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
I don't have 2008 Server right now, but it definitely doesn't work on my up-to-date Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I've just re-checked to be sure I'm not going completely mad.
Google suggests that several Microsoft updates break it:
Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich Posted May 31, 2012 15:15 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
I don't know about Windows 7 or Server 2008, but I do have experience of Windows 8 CP.
One of the advanced reboot options is to disable driver signing enforcement for the next boot. You can then install unsigned drivers by clicking through a scary warning as in previous versions of Windows. Once that driver is installed, you can reboot in normal mode and continue using it. I'm not certain if there's a boot flag that can be set *permanently* to keep enforcement disabled, but in practice that's only going to be a problem if you need to install unsigned drivers on a frequent basis, and to be honest I can't really fault MS for not considering that a high-priority use case.
Since the advanced reboot options menu is entirely new to Windows 8, I doubt it is a left-over from old versions that they're planning to remove in the final release; more likely that's how it will work in RTM.
Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich Posted May 31, 2012 15:18 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>more likely that's how it will work in RTM.
(Except when secure boot is enabled, obviously, since that would entirely defeat the point of secure boot)
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