boot it in a VM\emulator as listed above and choose option 0ī.
mnu files in E2B v1.91A and later versions contain a special second menu entry with a patch to fix this issue. Note: Some systems do not show the Kon-Boot multi-colour, ASCII character boot screen (it just hangs with a black screen). mnu file to suit your version of KonBoot. imgfdhd01 and add it to the E2B USB drive.Īlternatively, copy the kon-bootFLOPPY\kon-bootFLOPPY.img file to the (say) \_ISO\MAINMENU\MNU folder of your Easy2Boot USB drive and also the FD0-konboot-v2.1.mnu file from the \_ISO\docs\Sample mnu files folder.
You can use Windows Disk Manager to see if there is an EFI System Partition on your boot disk - if so then your system probably uses UEFI to boot to Windows.įor the.
'+ Got usb vendor="LEXARWN" / product="USB_FLASH_DRIVE" / serial="PX4EZAS2LRKRF5J20JN9".'ĭetails of how to make a UEFI64 Secure Bootable version of KonBoot are in eBook #4. To see which USB drive was originally used, see the konlog.txt log file in the installation file folder. When the install application is run, the file boot圆4.efi will contain the flash drive details in an encrypted form. Unfortunately, the maximum size of flash drive allowed by the KonBoot installer is only 16GB which is not much use for a multiboot USB drive!
Note : Newer licensed versions of KonBoot (2.7+) are locked to the particular Serial number, Product ID and Vendor ID of the USB flash drive, so unless the E2B USB drive is also registered as the KonBoot licensed drive, KonBoot will report an error (red GURU meditation error - see KonBoot FAQ ). If the system is on a Domain, disconnect the Ethernet cable and disable WiFi in the BIOS if it is used in case there is a locally cached user account. If the USB drive dies or is lost, you have also lost the licence too! Kon Boot 2.Tip: always enter a 'dummy' password - do not leave the password blank when logging in. The UEFI file is locked to a specific licence number and the USB Vendor ID, Product ID and Serial number, so once it has been installed to a particular USB drive, it is locked to that USB drive. This means we can run Kon-Boot from a large multiboot USB drive (such as an E2B USB drive).
The new version 3.5 now allows us to install it onto large USB drives. Before now, Kon-Boot would only install onto 'small' USB drives of 16GB or less.ĭone 15.0 0.0 306 Seeding linuxmint-19-mate-64bit-v2.iso 8 100% 1.12 MB Done 0.0 0.0 128 Idle Kon-Boot 2in1 (WinOS & MacOS) v2.7.zip 9 100% 829.4 MB.