On 01/12/2013 04:33 PM, zGreenfelder wrote:
at $long_ago_job we'd use a pxe-netboot image; effectively DBAN (http://www.dban.org/). which only really works if you have another server in the remote location to act as the pxe server.
Anything that you can PXE boot, you should also be able to load from GRUB.
http://ralintech.blogspot.com/2011/02/remote-wipe-with-dban.html
If DBAN features SSH, this would work. I assume that it does, since the blog is specifically about remotely wiping a system.