Can someone please help? This is very urgent !!! ”Enter a password to unlock the disk "macOS Base System".

[Mayank Dhingra]

I have a 2019 macbook air and i think the Catalina is installed on it. It was working fine until today morning.

i turned it on 15 mins back and it froze. I restarted it and it shows me this error. What do i do? Can someone please help? I dont wanna lose my data

[Mayank Dhingra]

Should i enter my laptop login password?

[ronfouchier]

Dear @Mayank Dhingra,

 

according to a quick Google search the dialogue appears, beacuse the file system is encrypted by Apple's FileVault. Entering your laptop login password should get you past this screen.

[FUIT1985]

On 4/14/2022 at 9:13 AM, Mayank Dhingra said:

I have a 2019 macbook air and i think the Catalina is installed on it. It was working fine until today morning.

i turned it on 15 mins back and it froze. I restarted it and it shows me this error. What do i do? Can someone please help? I dont wanna lose my data

It is the osx base system firmware password. It can be overridden from the Mac OS command line.

Read this guide on github.com.

 

https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide#firmware