Bug#490562: installation-report: hd-image couldn't mount partition

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 490562 debian-installer
severity 490562 serious
thanks

On Saturday 12 July 2008, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> Boot method: usb
> Image version: daily amd64 image. from 12.

> Comments/Problems:
> The installer couldn't mount its own partition - it seem that mount/the
> kernel now by default tries to use iocharset=utf8 by default, but this
> charset isn't available in the installer.
> By changing iso-scan postinst to pass -o iocharset=iso8859-1 to the
> mount command, it was able to succeed.
>
> I guess it is related to the kernel changes recently described on
> devel:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00340.html

Yes, that's my guess too.

We have gone from (.24):          To (.25):
CONFIG_NLS=y                      CONFIG_NLS=m
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"    CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"

I suspect the first line is responsible for the fact that we now need a 
nls-core-modules udeb and the second for this.

Someone will need to update D-I for the codepage change. Raising severity 
as this breaks certain types of installs, and possibly usage of removable 
media in general.

Cheers,
FJP