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I'd suggest a different approach. Instead of trying to lock down the loaner, which probably is going to be difficult to do against someone with physical possession anyway, just make a drive image of the loaner before giving it to them. When you get it back, just restore the image.
Most of the people using the loaner are not technically inclined at all. I just want to make it more difficult for them to accidentally break it and not know that they did. I do already have a custom ISO that I use for it, so a drive image won't be an issue, but if they have important data on there and break it it'll be more difficult to recover, so I'd rather prevent it as much as I can.