I wonder whether the Windows XP bootloader (ntldr
) actually makes use of the Windows kernel (ntoskrnl.exe
) import declarations?
ntoskrnl.exe
has following imported modules: BOOTVID.dll
, HAL.dll
and KDCOM.dll
. So these three modules are the first ones to be loaded. Imagine that the kernel has another module declared as imported. Will that cause ntldr
to also load it? Or does ntldr
merely know that it should load these four modules and there is no way to change that?