On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 16:47 +0100, Étienne wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying my luck: There used to
> be a
> community thread on Scaleway's documentation website that explained
> how
> to convert a Linux instance to an OpenBSD instance, because no
> OpenBSD
> ISO image was available in their console. It seems that this doc
> disappeared as their documentation section has changed format, and I
> can't find it on archive.org either. I would like to try and apply
> the
> same process at another VPS provider. Does anyone remember or know
> how
> this was done, and would they be kind enough to summarise it here,
> please?
>
> Thanks!
I've successfully installed OpenBSD on a OVH VPS (which has kvm) using
Linux's grub facility to boot an OpenBSD kernel.
I've simply dropped the bsd.rd file into /boot and added the
corresponding menu entry like (you can edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg
directly):
menuentry OpenBSD {
kopenbsd bsd.rd
}
If the machine is using UEFI (but most VPS don't) you can even use
efibootmgr instead.
I think I've done it using
https://themimitoof.fr/installer-openbsd-7-0-sur-gandicloud-vps/
It's in french but only the grub entry is really important. If you
don't have a KVM you will need to provide an autoinstall script.
HTH
--
David
