[DRBD-user] Getting DRBD running on RHEL5 with kernel 2.6.18-8.el5

Art Age Software artagesw at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 19:31:03 CET 2008

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Hi Florian,

The easiest method is to enable the CentOS Extras repository and do:

# sudo yum --enablerepo=extras install drbd kmod-drbd

You won't get the absolute latest version of DRBD, but it will be
guaranteed to work with your kernel.

Sam

On Feb 6, 2008 9:52 AM, Schmidt, Florian
<florian.schmidt at altroconsult.de> wrote:
> Hello DRBD-Users :),
>
> Two days ago I started to try to get DRBD running and I'm not ready yet :(
>
> I read lots of Howtos and installed lots of RPMs from different repositories. I also tried to compile my own kernel-module, but this failed with error.
>
> I'm not (yet ;) ) a Linux-Specialist, it's the first time of my life that I post in such a mailinglist (so I don't know anything about behaviour or something like that) and my english is also not very good.  But I hope, you'll help me. :)
>
> I've got 2 machines running with RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
> [uname -a says: 2.6.18-8.el5]
>
> I found some RPMs for other kernel versions and (in my desperation) installed them.
> I am able to execute drbdadm, drbdmeta and drbdsetup tools, but when I say /etc/init.d/drbd start, he says "Can not load the drbd module". So obviously the kernel module is still missing.
>
> How do I get this module into my Kernel?
>
> I think the best hint until now was this site:
>
> http://www.stefanocislaghi.it/2008/02/05/drbd-for-redhat-enterprise/
>
> I installed both RPMs and found that drbd.ko in the mentioned path. But I don't know where to copy it.
>
> I hope anyone will hive me some hints to get this running.
>
> btw: The actual (old) machines are only for testing purposes. The new machines will come next week (or so) and I wanted to test this before I make the real installation.
>
> Greets from Germany
>
> Florian Schmidt
>
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