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

Art Age Software artagesw at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 20:44:29 CET 2008

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Try a "yum update" to get your kernel to the latest version.

On Feb 6, 2008 10:53 AM, Schmidt, Florian
<florian.schmidt at altroconsult.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> First, thanks for your reply
>
> I just found this centos-extras-repository before your mail arrived and installed
>
> drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm
>
> and
>
> kmod-drbd-8.0.6-1.2.6.18_8.1.15.el5.i686.rpm
>
> from
>
> http://vault.centos.org/5.0/extras/i386/RPMS/
>
> manually via RPM -i ...
>
> Now, when I say /etc/init.d/drbd start he still answeres
>
> "Starting DRBD resources:    Can not load the drbd module."
>
> Does anyone have some ideas? ;)
>
> Greetz
>
> Flori
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: sweiss89 at gmail.com [mailto:sweiss89 at gmail.com] Im Auftrag von Art Age Software
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008 19:31
> An: Schmidt, Florian
> Cc: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
> Betreff: Re: [DRBD-user] Getting DRBD running on RHEL5 with kernel 2.6.18-8.el5
>
>
> 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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