Re: Ping: 'Jolly Roger' - Safe Boot mode

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Ping: 'Jolly Roger' - Safe Boot mode
Date	2019-01-24 03:55 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2019-01-24, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2019-01-24 00:32:58 +0000, David B. said:
>
>> Hi JR
>> 
>> I had a telephone conversation today with an Apple Support employee 
>> based in Portugal. He was the same man who had been unable to uncover 
>> the reason why I couldn't start my iMac in Safe Boot mode, way back in 
>> November.
>> 
>> He was surprised when I explained that, following my very helpful 
>> discussion with you, I had solved the problem! When I explained what 
>> needed to be done he said that rang a bell in his distant memory. It 
>> was something he had been told during his Apple training years ago but 
>> that never, not once, had the situation ever arisen in practice in his 
>> role as a now senior support professional. He thanked me ..... and I 
>> now pass on those same thanks to you.  :-)
>> 
>> I requested that he send a memorandum to all of his colleagues so that 
>> other advisers will not be caught out in the same manner. Time will 
>> tell!
>> 
>> My sincere thanks once again for your help.
>
> Will you remind us of what it was that solved the "no safe boot" problem?

He had a firmware password set, which prevents booting from anything
other than the volume set in System Preferences > Startup Disk.

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JR

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Ping: 'Jolly Roger' - Safe Boot mode "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-24 00:32 +0000
  Re: Ping: 'Jolly Roger' - Safe Boot mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-24 01:08 +0000
    Re: Ping: 'Jolly Roger' - Safe Boot mode "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-24 08:57 +0000
  Re: Ping: 'Jolly Roger' - Safe Boot mode gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-23 17:41 -0800
    Re: Ping: 'Jolly Roger' - Safe Boot mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-24 03:55 +0000

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