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Bug#685186: IA64 (Itanium) Wheezy, ELILO installation failed, patch proposal



Control: reassign -1 elilo

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 17:07:00 +0200, Stephan Schreiber wrote:

> The failed command is in debian/elilo.sh:
> 
> fstype=vfat
> ....
> mount -t "$fstype" -o
> codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,noexec,umask=077$loop "$boot"
> "$TMP/bootstrap.$$"
> what is perfect to mount an EFI system partition - much better than UTF-8.
> 
> A mount -t vfat -o codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1 needs the kernel
> modules nls_iso8859-1, nls_cp437, vfat, fat.
> 
> I ran the installer again. After the ELILO error message I tried
> lsmod
> on the shell; the most importand lines that it reported were:
> nls_cp437
> vfat
> fat
> nls_utf8
> 
> The nls_iso8859-1 module was not loaded.
> 
> 
> The existing fat-modules-3.2.0-3-itanium-di.udeb includes the
> following modules:
> nls_utf8.ko
> nls_cp437.ko
> fat.ko
> vfat.ko
> 
> There isn't a nls_iso8859-1.ko.
> 

< bwh> 'iocharset=iso8859-1' is a bug; Linux standard character encoding
       is UTF-8
< bwh> for filenames, at least
< bwh> So, assign to whatever contains the debian/elilo.sh script

So reassigning to elilo.

Cheers,
Julien

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