openbsd-on-linode.txt (1492B) [raw]
1 OpenBSD on Linode 2 ================= 3 Tues Sept 21, 2021 4 5 tags: openbsd 6 7 I'm a huge fan of OpenBSD. The simplicity of the system, the cohesive 8 feel it has, the proactive stance on security... The only problem? 9 My preferred cloud provider (Linode) doesn't support it! 10 11 Fortunately there's a comprehensive post on the Linode forum of how to 12 do it [1]. 13 14 I wanted to document it here in case said post ever goes away. 15 16 1. Create a New Linode (any OS will do) 17 2. Once booted, shut it down 18 3. Under the "Storage" tab delete the ext4 partitions 19 4. Create two new disks, both "Raw" format: 20 - One labeled "install", 1GB (could do less) 21 - One labeled "os", the rest of the space 22 5. Boot in "Rescue" mode 23 6. In the serial console, wget the minirootXX.img 24 - Check the sha256 against the SHA256 file 25 - Check the signature using signify (on a different machine that 26 has signify) 27 7. Find the install disk with `lsblk` 28 8. Flash the img using: `dd if=minirootXX.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M` 29 9. In the Configurations tab, create a new one: 30 - Full Virtualization 31 - Select a Kernel > Direct Disk 32 - /dev/sda - os 33 - /dev/sdb - install 34 - boot from sdb 35 10. Reboot into configuration, install OpenBSD from serial console 36 11. Halt/shutdown, and change configuration to boot from sda 37 12. Rejoice! 38 39 NOTE: if you skip the "Direct Disk" kernel step, it boots a Linux 40 kernel and tries to load the img... it panics every time! 41 42 [1]: https://www.linode.com/community/questions/10329/openbsd-on-linode