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 ====== Boot Mode: Legacy BIOS or UEFI ====== ====== Boot Mode: Legacy BIOS or UEFI ======
  
-!!AstLinux 1.4.5 or earlier!! only supports Legacy BIOS booting.+!!AstLinux 1.4.5 or earlier!! only supports Legacy BIOS (non-UEFI) booting.
  
 AstLinux's SSD has a FAT16 formatted 1st partition marked as bootable with a master boot record (MBR).  Hardware Legacy BIOS will jump to ''syslinux'' installed on the FAT16 partition which in turn calls RUNNIX (minimal Linux kernel also on the FAT16 partition), and lastly ''kexec'' the desired AstLinux run image. AstLinux's SSD has a FAT16 formatted 1st partition marked as bootable with a master boot record (MBR).  Hardware Legacy BIOS will jump to ''syslinux'' installed on the FAT16 partition which in turn calls RUNNIX (minimal Linux kernel also on the FAT16 partition), and lastly ''kexec'' the desired AstLinux run image.
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