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Re: Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD?

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In comp.sys.mac.portables Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2018-10-02, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Here's a weird one. I don't know if this is by design. I was booting up 
> > a 2008's 15" MacBook Pro. I already entered its HDD's FileVault password 
> > to slowly boot up its updated Mac OS X El Capitan v10.11.6. And then, I 
> > accidently pulled its mag power plug from MBP and the system shut down 
> > (sleep?) due to lack of power (still using the original battery -- never 
> > replaced any hardwares on it since it is rarely used).

> That battery should probably be replaced pronto.

Why? Is it bad? Will it blow up? This MBP is rarely used since it is 
very slow and old. :/


> > After replugging its power plug back in and turning it back on, it did 
> > its usual slow boot up but it never asked me to enter my password to 
> > access its encrypted HDD. Instead it took me to its password reset 
> > screen with three prompts. Huh? I never asked for that.
> >
> > Was that supposed to happen?

> You mean this screen?:

> <https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/osx/yosemite-password_reset-choose_problem.png>

Yes, that's the screen.


> That's normally what you see when you let the computer sit at the
> FileVault password entry screen for a while, and the computer guesses
> that you may have forgotten the password to FileVault. It tells you that
> you can hold the power button to shit down, then press the power button
> again to boot up into macOS Recovery, where you see this screen. So
> apparently your computer booted into macOS Recovery due to losing power.

Ah. How long is the wait before the computer bring this FileVault reset 
password screen up? I didn't wait very long since I only powered it back 
up from an accidental shut down during its boot up. I wonder if it just 
went to sleep due to lack of power and then came back to this, but then 
its boot up was slow (normal) after its power loss.


> I haven't ever arrived there by accident, but I suspect you can just
> shut it down and boot it up again to get back to the normal boot
> sequence.

Yes, I was looking a way out and saw a reboot/shut(not shit) down 
option. ;)

Oh well, I was just wondering. No big deal. I was just wanted to know 
if that was even normal. If it was, then it would be a weird design! :)
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Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-10-02 18:51 -0500
  Re: Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-10-03 00:34 +0000
    Re: Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-10-02 20:58 -0500
      Re: Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-10-03 02:41 +0000

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