The NT Booting Process: NTOSKRNL

• NT kernel loads, along with the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), the part of NT that allows the operating system to be hardware-independent. The kernel loads in four phases:

  • The kernel load phase
  • The kernel initialization phase (screen turns blue!)
  • The services load phase (Win32 subsystem loads here)
  • The Windows subsystem phase (logon dialog box appears)

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