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Not a Linode customer. If you have access to the grub(2) prompt, you can download a OpenBSD ramdisk and boot it directly from there. The whole process boils dow

Not a Linode customer. If you have access to the grub(2) prompt, you can download a OpenBSD ramdisk and boot it directly from there. The whole process boils down to Download file to /boot (or anywhere accessible from grub) Reboot / boot OpenBSD installer Did that on my cloudcost machine to experiment with OpenBSD services.

astrodust 11y ago
It's a VPS. You don't have access to grub in any form.
- brandon 11y ago
  That's untrue; Linode offers PV-GRUB. I've been using it to boot FreeBSD with their Xen offering for years.