Kon-Boot on a USB

[mick at pauldotcom.com (Michael Douglas)]

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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