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Hybrid Disk Format
• EFI requires GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk format
• EFI requires one FAT32 partition
• VMS requires ODS Files-11 disk format
• VMS does not support partition disks
• Both format co-exist, independent of each other
• EFI console view
– GPT format with one 48Mb FAT32 partition
– Remaining space unallocated
• VMS view
– ODS Files-11 format disk
– 48Mb container file allocated for FAT32 partition
• CD-ROMs use ISO9660 format instead of GPT
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Selecting EFI console terminal
• New systems are shipped with multiple devices
selected as the console terminal
• VMS requires only one serial port for the console
terminal
• Be sure USB keyboard is unplugged for now,
support for USB keyboard and VGA console
planned for the future
• Use the Boot Option Maintenance Menu to select
only serial port and deselect other device
• Can select ANSI, VT100 and VT100+ terminal types,
based on your terminal emulator
• Reset the system
