drive geometry for formatting script and lilo.conf

[moonlightcheese]

i've taken on a project of building a tool that will install/run on a Windows machine on an NTFS drive, and just format the drive. that is the only purpose: formatting the drive.

the purpose of the tool is to have an .msi package that can be double clicked from within Windows and will wipe every drive in the system.

now how to accomplish this? i was thinking to build a very small phat linux distro (boots from NTFS supposedly) on a generic system and copy that installation to an .msi package. this isn't really a small feat (for me at least) and i could really use some help.

so far i've built a bootloader that will start lilo from the windows boot menu. the bootloader will not boot a linux install from NTFS though, so hopefully phat will fix this.

my problem is thus: i need to build the lilo.conf file with the proper drive geometry but obviously this isn't possible as the geometry changes from system to system, disk to disk. how do i build a generic lilo.conf file (or any loader) that will work for any drive without configuration? it doesn't matter what the geometry is, as every sector on every drive in the system will need to be erased.

anybody know how to do that?

and why am i not using GRUB? i'm used to LILO and i'm stubborn. :P but i'll use it if someone knows how to make it boot from a drive with unknown geometry.

[moonlightcheese]

wow... really? no one knows anything about drive geometry and lilo?