Hello,
Thanks for any information in advance.
If you use a bootCD on a system that has wholedisk encryption and your bootcd session that is running from RAM uses more than the allocated RAM on the system I would assume that the pagefile.sys is not going to be utilized. Is that so? It might not even be the case of having holedisk encryption, but more that using a bootCD will only use available RAM and no swap. If that is the case, what happens when more RAM is needed than available?
Thanks,
If you use a bootCD on a system that has wholedisk encryption and your bootcd session that is running from RAM uses more than the allocated RAM on the system I would assume that the pagefile.sys is not going to be utilized. Is that so?
Reasoning through this, if the drive is encrypted, how does the OS running in RAM know where the pagefile is?
If the encrypted disk is Windows, and the bootCD is Linux…well, Linux != Windows, and doesn't "speak" Windows.
If the encrypted disk is Windows, and the bootCD is WinFE…how does the OS know where the pagefile is located?
A BartPE may be configured in such a way that it automatically tries to use pagefile.sys on local disks but that obviously will not work if the whole disk is encrypted.
If that is the case, what happens when more RAM is needed than available?
Depends on the application.
Some apps will tell you that there is not enough RAM - example VMware Workstation or Photoshop.
Other apps may not load at all or crash