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Open Firmware Password doesn't work on Bondi iMac
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Fresh install of Jag on this old boat. It's going to work, where I am concerned about keeping that person in every office who feels it's their duty to mess with your stuff. I tried to enable Open Firmware Password but I get a message saying that it won't run unless I update the firmware. But the firmware for this tray loader is updated as far as it will go!
I tried versions 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 and they both give this message. Will an older version work? Where would I get it?
Any ideas?
Val
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Posting Junkie
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The Bondi doesn't support Open Firmware passwords. That feature didn't get added to OF until they quit making firmware updates for that particular model.
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Thanks- if I had bothered to read the "read me" on this software I would have discovered that. It's rotten how Apple only half supports hardware sometimes. Either support it or don't!
Val 
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Clinically Insane
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You mean it's weird how Apple doesn't retrofit features onto old machines' firmware? I don't think it's that strange.
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Chuck
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Aside from DVD playback (which would require impossible hardware upgrades) I don't see any other feature or program that works on other machines that doesn't work on the first generation of iMacs. Many schools still had labs full of iMacs (and maybe some still do) when Jag came out, so why wasn't Open FIrmware Password enabled? I can't think of a better place to have tamper proof machines. I'm not sure how hard firmware is to write, but if it is a free software upgrade for some machines supported by Jaguar then it should be available for all machines supported by Jaguar.
Val
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Originally Posted by ValVashon
Aside from DVD playback (which would require impossible hardware upgrades) I don't see any other feature or program that works on other machines that doesn't work on the first generation of iMacs. Many schools still had labs full of iMacs (and maybe some still do) when Jag came out, so why wasn't Open FIrmware Password enabled? I can't think of a better place to have tamper proof machines. I'm not sure how hard firmware is to write, but if it is a free software upgrade for some machines supported by Jaguar then it should be available for all machines supported by Jaguar.
Val
The Open Firmware password isn't a feature of Mac OS X. It's a feature of the hardware's firmware. The "Open Firmware Password" app that comes with OS X is nothing more than a friendly way to access that hardware feature. The OFW password existed long before that app did - just that in OS 9, you had to boot into Open Firmware by holding down Command, Option, O, and F at boot, and then type a couple of commands.
Basically, the Open Firmware Password app can't change a setting in the firmawre that doesn't exist.
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