[Info-vax] Hobbyist RX2620

[FredK]

EFI creates FSn devices for each FAT formatted partition it finds as it 
probes disks.

It creates BLK devices for non-FAT partitions and raw disks that can only be 
accessed by block IO.

If you do not see a FSn you have nothing that can be booted.

A VMS disk will contain two FAT partitions (and 2 FS devices).  The EFI 
system partition (ESP) and the HP Service Partition (which is empty unless 
you install the diagnostics).

A DVD will contain one entry in the boot directory to a non-emulated 
(non-pretend-floppy) that is a FAT partition that is the same as what we 
ship on the OS boot disk - except that the VMS_LOADER has been renamed to 
\BOOT\BOOTIA64.EFI so that it will auto-boot.



"John H. Reinhardt" <johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:4b7ec225-e0ef-4ddc-9db6-554d6db6b57c at s31g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 7, 3:21 am, d... at y7mail.com wrote:

You should have at least one fsx: device show up.  I have two because
I have a bootable filesystem on a hard drive (fs1).  The other is the
OpenVMS Operating Environments DVD.