Kon-Boot on a USB

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/7/6 John Navarro <jnavtx at gmail.com>:
> I had a similar problem trying to boot with USB, it would hang after
> tweaking the BIOS and then say it was booting...then no love...just hang.
> CD worked perfectly :|

They demo'ed it on Hak5 and said that a few people had had problems
with it but Snubs had it work on 3 out of 3 machines she tried it on.

Robin

> X
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Michael Douglas <mick at pauldotcom.com> wrote:
> > Thanks very much for trying Adrian, it's possible that something
> > fundamental about the way the Kon Book works.
> >
> > Again, I can't take credit for this... Paul is the one who pointed it
> > out to me. ?After I played with it a bit John gave the final nudge
> > needed for me to shout about this.
> >
> > I will attempt to test this with my WinXP 64 build. ?Unless someone's
> > already tested this... If so, please speak up! ? ;-)
> >
> > See you at DEFCON?
> > - Mick
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Adrian Crenshaw<irongeek at irongeek.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Nice find Mick. I did some messing around with it, I could not get
> > > Unetbootin to put it on a flash drive from the CD ISO, but I could get
> > > it
> > > too boot from the USB using the floppy disk image and this page:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2009/05/11/burn-iso-image-to-usb-flash-pen-drive-kon-boot-to-usb/
> > >
> > > However, even though it would boot from the USB, it lead to a gray
> > > screen
> > > when it should have loaded the default OS off of the local drive. The CD
> > > I
> > > burned worked perfectly on the same box, so I don't think it is the
> > > hardware. I'd be interested if anyone else had the same issue: Worked
> > > from a
> > > CD, but not a thumb drive.
> > >
> > > Anyone know if this only works on 32bit versions of Windows? Also,
> > > details
> > > are scant on their page, but what it seems to do is act as a boot
> > > loader,
> > > mod the memory and then you can log in as any local account with a blank
> > > password. Neato.
> > >
> > >
> > > Adrian
> > >
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