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startup options not available
I wanted to do a DiskWarrior rebuild on my system drive last night so I tried holding down the option key on reboot to get to my startup manager (2010 Mac Pro 12-core). I intended on booting off a system drive clone. All I got was a white screen stall. I had to power it off and reboot. After a little research it looked like somehow I had turned on the firmware password in the past which causes all of the startup shortcuts to be blocked. One of the solutions I found was to put in my OSX install disk and look for the utilities menu where you could reset the firmware password. I clicked through the install dialogue until I got to what looked like the final “are you sure you want to do this” box but still didn’t find the utilities menu.
Can anyone offer any help?
thanks
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It should be at the first screen on an OSX installer disks – the menu choice for utilities.
There’s also a brute force method of removing a stick of ram, and resetting the PRAM – easy to do on a MacPro, harder on everything else…
Best,
Jeff G
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Thanks Jeff,
The only extra button on my install disks is for optional installs like Quicktime 7. I can’t find anything that refers to utilities like the firmware password reset. But if you say it should be there, I’ll take another look tonight.
Lee
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One note – it’s not a button – it’s a menu
Best,
Jeff G
Apple Master Trainer | Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC | Adobe Cert. Instructor
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ooops! Menu….That may be the magic word. So when I load my install disk, unique options appear in the menu bar? I was looking for something to click in the installer dialogue box.
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Well I put my install disc in, clicked the option to install OS and the first dialogue box had an Utilities button on it. Pressing it got a screen that said that if I wanted to restore from Time Machine, or other utility functions, click the restart button and I should be presented with all the options on reboot. All I got was Kernel Panic. In fact I had to manually eject the disc in order to reboot. Several more tries got the same thing.
Any ideas?
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I found some info that suggested disconnecting all peripherals and trying to reboot. Lo and behold it worked. I was able to reset the firmware password.
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Sure – now that I’m awake, you’ve already solved it. 😀
Congratulations!
Best,
Jeff G
Apple Master Trainer | Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC | Adobe Cert. Instructor
————
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