I installed lvm on a stock RedHat 7.1 installation without rebuilding the kernel (and without rebooting) as follows: (If this is common knowledge, I apologize in advance, but I didn't see it in the docs, howto, or mailing list archives.) (as root) 1) install the kernel sources rpm (kernel-source-2.4.2-2.rpm) 2) follow the instruction in the lvm tarball for creating a patch for the kernel. Apply the patch. Note that since only the lvm module files are modified by the patch (at least for stock redhat 7.1), you won't need to rebuild the whole kernel. 3) cd /usr/src/linux-2.4 gmake mrproper gmake xconfig 4) "Load Configuration from File" Load up the file in /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/ that matches the kernel you are currently running. If you don't pick the right one, step 9/10 will fail. 'uname -a' might help you pick. 5) Go to "Multi-Device Support" and check off module support for lvm. 6) Save and quit 7) gmake dep gmake modules 8) cp drivers/md/lvm-mod.o /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/md/ 9) /sbin/depmod -a 10) /sbin/modprobe lvm-mod and to check: 11) ls /proc/lvm Voila, it's there, an no reboot necessary. Continue following the rest of the steps in the lvm tarball. Most of the above was probably obvious, except for the part about loading the right file from configs/, so that you don't get module versioning problems. I imagine the above should work with minor changes regardless of which redhat kernel rpm you're currently using. Taher __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
