Its routers were especially popular because of their unique operating system. MikroTik is an industry-favorite hardware company producing a range of modems, routers, and even a few server devices. This makes sure the preinstalled Linux system is not writing anything to the disk, and might damage the freshly written CHR filesystem on the disk, while/before rebooting.6.3 Does Cloudzy support full root and SSH access? What is MikroTik CHR and What Can You Do with It? Prefer to boot the VPS into a linux rescue system, and writing the CHR image to disk, instead of writing the CHR image from a running linux system booted from the same disk you are writing the CHR image to. Use a actual CHR version image to download via wget, don't just copy the commands of the tutorials with older download links, some older versions of CHR did not have drivers for virtio disks and won't be able to boot inside a VPS from a provider which is using virtio disks. Find out what your VPS system is using for the virtual disks, like '/dev/sda' or is it '/dev/vda' for the disks. What a lot of tutorials I've seen aren't mentioning and can giving trouble: If you prefer some other provider, some linux knowledge is helpful and it should be no problem to install a CHR on any vps provider which is using kvm virtualisation. If you find a vps provider which is providing Mikrotik CHR as an OS option to install, it is the easiest way. I'm not familiar with the tutorial on digital ocean or cloudcone as VPS provider, but I've successful installed some CHR instances on different providers.

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-862.2.3.86_64 root=/dev/vda1 console=tty0 ro vconsole.keymap=us vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 nomodeset I already tried the DigitalOcean tutorial (dd if = chr.img bs = 1024 of = / dev / vda).Īfter the Boot, the Grub can not find the boot disk How can I install the CHR on the Cloudcone VPS?

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