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