Installing Kon-Boot

[cpr]

The following is a tutorial on adding Kon-Boot to Katana:

1) Download Kon-Boot 1.1 files from " XXXXXX "

2) Extract the files into /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/ on your Katana drive

3) On your Katana Drive, create the file kon-boot.cfg in the /boot/menu directory. (This is the menu for Kon-Boot.)
Open kon-boot.cfg in a text editor and copy and past the following into it:

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PROMPT 0
#TIMEOUT 90
DEFAULT /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/vesamenu.c32
MENU BACKGROUND /boot/wallpaper.png

MENU WIDTH 30
MENU MARGIN 0
MENU ROWS 12
MENU HELPMSGROW 22
MENU TIMEOUTROW 26
MENU TABMSGROW 27
MENU CMDLINEROW 27
MENU HSHIFT 24
MENU VSHIFT 0

   menu color screen   37;40      #00000000 #00000000 none
   menu color border   30;44      #00000000 #00000000 none
   menu color title   1;36;44    #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   #menu color unsel   37;44      #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
   menu color unsel   37;44      #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   menu color hotkey   1;37;44    #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
   #menu color sel      7;37;40    #ffffffff #00000000 none
   menu color sel      7;37;40    #ffffffff #00000000 none
   menu color hotsel   1;7;37;40  #ff808080 #ff60CA00 none
   menu color scrollbar   30;44      #00000000 #00000000 none

   menu color tabmsg   31;40      #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   menu color cmdmark   1;36;40    #ffff0000 #00000000 none
   menu color cmdline   37;40      #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   menu color pwdborder   30;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
   menu color pwdheader   31;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
   menu color pwdentry   30;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
   menu color timeout_msg   37;40      #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   menu color timeout   1;37;40    #ffaaaaff #00000000 none
   menu color help      37;40      #aaaaaa00 #00000000 none
   menu color msg07   37;40      #90ffffff #00000000 std

label unetbootindefault
menu label 1st Kon-Boot
kernel /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/ubnkern
append initrd=/boot/syslinux/kon-boot/ubninit
TEXT HELP
Kon-Boot seems to take over hd0 when you boot from a USB,
so use Kon-boot first then try the below boot options right afterwards.
ENDTEXT

LABEL chd1
MENU LABEL 2nd try boot from drive C as hd1
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/chain.c32
APPEND hd1

LABEL chd2
MENU LABEL 2nd try boot from drive C as hd2
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/chain.c32
APPEND hd2

LABEL chd3
MENU LABEL 2nd try boot from drive C as hd3
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/chain.c32
APPEND hd3

LABEL chd0
MENU LABEL 2nd try boot from drive C as hd0
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/chain.c32
APPEND hd0

LABEL back
MENU LABEL ..
KERNEL /boot/vesamenu.c32
APPEND /boot/menus/main.cfg
TEXT HELP
                        Back to Main Menu
ENDTEXT


4) Finally, on the Katana Drive; open /boot/menus/main.cfg in a text editor and add the following to the end of the file. This will add Kon-Boot to the main boot menu.

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LABEL kon-boot
MENU LABEL Kon-Boot
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/vesamenu.c32
APPEND /boot/menus/kon-boot.cfg
TEXT HELP
                         More about currently selected:

                         Kon-Boot - Bypass Win/Linux
               password on boot.
ENDTEXT


You should now be able to run Kon-Boot from Katana.

[dweez]

Did you extract the "FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img" file to get the files referenced in the kon-boot.cfg file? I'm doing this from a Windows 7 machine and I am unable to find any utility that will allow me to extract files from this .img file. If I follow these instructions and then just add either the .iso or the .img file to the /boot/syslinux/kon-boot/ directory, Kon-Boot shows up in the menu (of course) but is useless.

I've tried this with both 1.1 (for Windows and Linux) as well as 1.0, trying both the CD ISO and the FD IMG for both with no success. Any ideas?

-dweez

[cpr]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JQVFZTOA

download this...

[dweez]

Thanks! That worked great. Did you extract it on a linux box or was I just getting bad files?

[cpr]

The files I posted above are from version 1.0 and I didn´t extract them... I "got" them...
The pseudo-"new" version 1.1 only works if you point to the floppy image directly... There is no need to extract...