Hello,
about a year ago I set up a firmware password for my MacBook 5.1 (Aluminium Unibody MacBook, no Pro). I forgot to store the password in 1Password, so now I'm stuck with a MacBook which has a firmware password set I can't reset.
Will the Mavericks installer ask for the firmware password? Or will it just install Mavericks like it installed every other 10.8.x update in the past months?
Bye,
Oliver
MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Hello,
thanks. But a firmware password is something different than an account password: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4347468 .
I know that there might be a chance that Apple might disable the firmware password when I go to an Apple Store, but I'm interested in getting to know if installing the update to Mavericks requires the firmware password or not. "Dot updates" did not require the firmware password, but I don't want to create a bricked machine in case Mavericks does.
Bye,
Oliver
As far as I know it does not. I updated two with firmware passwords that they had no issues. WIth that being said, there are ways of removing a firmware password which I will not mention here but a Google search will probably help you out in that regard.
You mean it did not ask for the firmware passwords?
All the firmware password does in prevent unwanted users from booting up in any method other than the standard (example : single user) so that someone cannot get in and change settings.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
I can't see any reason that an update would ask for this as it has nothing to do with this. They are two seperate things.
Thanks vor the answers. I tried it and it worked without any problems. During the installation the firmware password is not asked for.
Update to Mavericks, Firmware password lost
