[syslinux] Remotely Wipe Hard Drive

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/16/2010 11:19 AM, Matthew Holevinski wrote:
> Looks like I can't install syslinux's bootloader on an ntfs partition?
> 
> What I'd like to do is remotely setup a bootloader to wipe the hard
> drive contents on old assets.
> I was kind of hoping, that I could install syslinux on a remote
> workstation, and then throw a dban
> image and the corresponding menu and syslinux.cfg files on the remote
> workstation and then reboot it
> and have the client choose the option to wipe the hard drive.
> 
> Unfortunately, the entire hard drive contents is 1 large encrypted
> ntfs partition. How would any of you guys
> go about remotely wiping a pc, WITHOUT the ability to create boot
> media, strictly remote??? oh, and no pxe
> servers available either :))
> 

How can you "remotely wipe a PC" without the ability to boot it at all
(no boot media, no remote boot)?  That seems fundamentally impossible.
BKO doesn't solve it, either, since it needs a (very small) piece of
boot media.

	-hpa