Using Kon-Boot from a USB Flash Drive: Bypass those Windows and Linux login passwordsThere are 2 types of
Kon-Boot images. The
floppy image and
CD ISO. You can use
UNetbootin, a tool that allows you to create
Bootable Live USB drives for a variety of
Linux distributions from
Windows or
Linux, without requiring you to burn a
CD. The trick here is to use the floppy image instead of the
CD ISO. If you don’t get what am I saying, just follow the few simple step-by-step on how to burn
Kon-Boot ISO to
USB.
1. Download latest version of
UNetbootin and install.
2. Download
Kon-Boot floppy image and extract the
zip file to get
FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img file.
3. Plug in your
USB flash drive.
4. Run
UNetbootin, select
Diskimage, click the drop down menu to select
Floppy and browse for the
FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img file.
5. Make sure
USB Drive is selected for Type and the
drive letter is the
USB flash drive that you want to install
Kon-Boot. Click
OK. It should take a few seconds to finish installing
Kon-Boot floppy image into your
USB.6. You can click the
Reboot Now button and boot up your computer with
USB. You may have to set your
BIOS to do that. On newer computers, there should be a hotkey to show the
Boot Menu.
7. If you get it right, you should see a
UNetbootin screen with 10 seconds countdown to select
Default from the list. You can either hit
enter to immediately boot Kon-Boot or just wait until 10 seconds for
UNetbootin to automatically boot the default profile for you.
8. When you see the
Krypto Logic screen, hit a key to continue. Just wait for
Windows or
Linux to boot normally. Now you can login to any user account without entering a password!
