Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Schmidt, Florian wrote: > Two days ago I started to try to get DRBD running and I'm not ready > yet :( > I've got 2 machines running with RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 [uname -a > says: 2.6.18-8.el5] First thing you should do is to update your kernel and get the latest from Red Hat. 2.6.18-8.el5 is the original kernel they shipped, the newest is 2.6.18-53.1.6.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. It didn't work because you used modules compiled for a different kernel than the one you have installed. You will need drbd modules for the kernel you are running. > How do I get this module into my Kernel? I think the easiest way to install drbd on your servers is to use the SRPMs or RPMs from centos. That's what I did for my rhel5 servers. You can find prebuilt drbd and kmod-drbd RPMs here (or another mirror if this one is slow) http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/5.1/extras/i386/RPMS/ You can also rebuild the SRPMs for drbd and drbd-kmod if the prebuilt ones do not work. http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/5.1/extras/SRPMS/ That should get your started. Tom