[derefr]

> Quite a few people would like CoreOS on Digital Ocean

I'm one of those, and currently trying to figure out a hacky workaround to make it possible.

I'm already doing this[1] to get a current Ubuntu kernel running on DO. The same principle would seem to apply: boot into the CoreOS kernel, but with an initrd that mounts a different btrfs subvolume than the "bootstrap" OS.

This would require DigitalOcean to have a btrfs-formatted image, though, because they don't offer any re-partitioning support... maybe having the initrd mount a loopback image containing a btrfs filesystem would work?

I'm getting to the point, though, where it might be less effort to just start my own CoreOS-centered hosting service than to continue with DO...

[1] https://gist.github.com/cpuguy83/6143347

[hannibalhorn]

I looked at this, and had the impression you can contact support at DO and they'll mount a rescue mode image where you could setup btrfs manually. The idea of having to depend on support to just boot an arbitrary image didn't really appeal to me though, so I wound up just using Linode and creating the root filesystems from their Finnix image, which worked fine.