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# Boot Process

This section deals with different Boot processes on Surface RT/2

Boot process can be divided in 2 different sections.

## SOC Boot process

First comes the SoC boot process.\
This prepares the SoC to execute more capable firmware/bootloaders which will eventually load a Operating System.

## UEFI Boot process

Once the UEFI Firmware is loaded it needs to decide which files should be booted next.