Blancco Drive Eraser can be booted and used without a display adapter, but it must be remotely controlled via Blancco Management Console 4.

The following requirements must be met:

1. The process has to be set as "Manual".
   • Default erasure process, this can also be configured via the Drive Eraser Configuration Tool (DECT).
2. The Blancco Drive Eraser image has to be remotely controlled via the Blancco Management Console 4 and the correct communication settings have to be in place.
   • This can be configured via the DECT (erasure control = "Blancco Management Console remote", communication settings filled in).
   • If the communication settings are not correct, Blancco Drive Eraser will run, but it will not be able to receive any orders from the BMC 4.
   • BMC 4 can start the erasure remotely, monitor it and fetch the erasure report in the end.
   • Any other configuration will result in a non-functional Blancco Drive Eraser image.

In case the booting is done via USB-stick, the following line has to be removed from the menu.lst file on the bootable USB sticks root. Otherwise USB booting will not work:
"splashimage=/syslinux/blancco.xpm"