Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
RobH wrote: > > Hi , > > I am trying to get drbd 0.7.5 work on a Red hat enterprise Linux 3 ( > White box enterprise Linux 3 ) with kernel 2.4.21-15.EL > > The make make install was without any errors and insmod drdb after > compiling was also o.k. > But when I am trying to get drbd work , ./drbd start , then after > initialising the resources and both machines, both systems crashing and > the only thing what I can do is to press the power button on both > servers. > > Has anybody have some experience with RHEL 3 or is it better to use an > older version of drbd like 0.6.XX?? suggestion, do a `telinit 3` on both servers before doing the drbd work. the `telinit 3` will put you in runlevel 3 (console mode instead of X) and if the kernel is OOPs or panicking you can then see the output and all of us might be able help you more in figuring out what is wrong. as an aside, I believe it is good practice, on machines that are just servers, to set them up in runlevel 3 all the time because no one should be logged in running X apps on the head of servers. so I would also suggest modifying /etc/inittab to set 3 as the default. Hope you find this helpful. =================================================================== --- /etc/inittab 2004/02/10 23:29:13 1.1 +++ /etc/inittab 2003/12/01 18:07:11 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # -id:5:initdefault: +id:3:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit =================================================================== -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter