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Hello everyone I need a very odd feature. I'm working on a project to wipe 12 harddrives at a time. The pci cards I bought for more ide channels are super cheap. They use the vt6410 via chip. In linux there is support to use this chip as a regular ide controller. Here's the problem, these card have no bios code of there own on the pci. You can either load the chips rom file thru the

Hello list, I had to boot a Dell Diagnostic Disk today, and tried doing this via memdisk - which was when I noticed memdisk isn't working for me at all, neither from pxelinux nor syslinux. After trying around with 'raw', 'bigraw' and the like I noticed it doesn't even do anything when just using: LABEL diag KERNEL memdisk .. when I try that: boot: diag nothing

I'm integrating DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) into our PXE boot menu system (using vesamenu.c32) but it just hangs when I'm using vesamenu.c32 and confusingly when I revert our menu system to using vesa.c32 it works ok. I've stripped out any extraneous configuration but it still seems to have the same problem. When I use this in pxelinux.cfg it boots into DBAN ok: default

Hi folks, For unknown cause I encounter following mounting problem; # /mnt/hda8 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda8, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so # dmesg | tail via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0x9A0000) via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0x9A0000)

Hello all, I understand that during PXE boot, it goes into the pxelinux.cfg and it states: 1. "it will search for the config file using its own IP address in upper case hexadecimal, e.g. 192.0.2.91 -> C000025B (you can use the included progam "gethostip" to compute the hexadecimal IP address for any host.) If that file is not found, it will remove one hex digit and try

I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive menu. Now that I've disabled the non-existant floppy drive, at least it does say "to

greetings list, i am creating a new thread because of comment made by; From: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> in thread "Subject: [CentOS] erase disk". in past readings about; erasing an hdd, forensics of hard disk drives, dban, destroying hdd i submit these links for those who may wish to further their knowledge on primaries of hdd forensics;

I have gotten a couple of probes about NTFS support for Syslinux, and I would like to gauge how serious it is. I'm considering using it as a pilot project for writing Syslinux filesystem modules in C. However, an installer, or more realistically two (one for Win32, one for Linux) have to be written, so it's still a real time commitment. -hpa

Hello, I know this might be slightly off-topic, but I know at least hpa has an intimate knowledge of the linux boot process - and I would want to use it with syslinux/pxelinux, so I figure it might not hurt too much to ask: Is it possible to embedd the initrd with the linux kernel in a way similiar to how it works on some embedded systems? There, you provide an object file with the filesystem,

Is it possible to specify the root device in extlinux.conf by an ext2 label or uuid? How difficult is it to add this support if it is not there? I am in a situation where this is needed and my fstab is configured appropriately, but extlinux.conf still needs to be manually updated when the root drive changes to a different scsi device (due to the number of drives on the bus and the order of the

Hello, Has anyone thought about how one could use the "keeppxe" option with a vmlinuz/initrd? It would allow one to boot this combination, and if possible the linux kernel/initrd (assuming we have busybox in there) would not have to run udhcp and instead leverage what pxe stack information is loaded. The problem is I don't know of any PXE/UNDI linux utilities to look at the pxe

Hello, I was browsing the code for memdisk (I want to adjust it to my hardware) and noticed a couple of things that I am struggling to understand. I would appreciate if someone could clarify the following mysteries to me: 1) _binary_memdisk_bin_start[], _binary_memdisk_bin_end[] and _binary_memdisk_bin_size[]; These variables are declared (as extern const chat in 'setup.c')

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:18 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: >> DBAN is obsolete. NIST 800-88 for some time now says to use secure erase >> or enhanced security erase or crypto erase if supported. >> >> Other options do not erase data in remapped sectors. > > dban doesn't? What F/OSS does "secure erase"? And does it do

Chris Murphy wrote: > DBAN is obsolete. NIST 800-88 for some time now says to use secure erase > or enhanced security erase or crypto erase if supported. > > Other options do not erase data in remapped sectors. dban doesn't? What F/OSS does "secure erase"? And does it do what dban's DoD 5220.22-M does? mark, overkill

I will really hate myself if this has already been solved, i searched the archives but didn't really find anything pertaining to it. I have a 2.88mb dos boot floppy image, with ghost.exe, dos nic drivers, and dos system files. It works fine when burnt to a cd. As for the thumbdrive when trying to configure this hpghost.ima file to run from my syslinux.cfg menu, it works and boots up fine but

> -----Original Message----- > From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@amd.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:12 AM > To: Foreman, Tim > Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.4 on RH EL 4.4 - can''t make it boot > kerne l > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Foreman, Tim [mailto:tforeman@ibsys.com]

Hi, I looked through the documentation and the mailing list archives but could not yet find out whether this could be made to work. The task I want to use that feature for is being able to collect firmware updates for servers and their components and boot those updates from a notebook with DHCP/TFTP-Server. That would greatly reduce setup time for new server installations. The problem is that

Wes James wrote: > Is there a utility to zero unused blocks on a disk? > > CentOS 6.7/Ext4 > > I saw zerofree, but I?m not sure it would work on Ext4 or even work on > this version of CentOS. > I don't understand the point of doing this. If you want to sanitize the disk, use dban <dban.org>, which surely approaches industry standard for the open source answer. Just

On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or > DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them > deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them > yet, but it's surely coming, so we might as well figure it out now. Does anyone use hdparm's

James Szinger wrote: > Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking > as private citizen. > > Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a > standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet > can't > know what they are. I'm betting it involves some degree of paperwork. > > Around