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Bug#839554: Fwd: Message with no Package: tag cannot be processed! (installation-reports: failure to format and mount EFI partition during installation)



Hi Jeroen,

Jeroen Van den Keybus <jeroen.vandenkeybus@gmail.com> (2016-10-01):
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Installed -testing using debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso over IPMI on a
> Super Micro X10DRL.
> 
> In short: used guided to create EFI and main partitions, then removed the 60G
> swap (?!) and main partitions. Then created a single btrfs partition of around
> 119G (guided took care of the 1M gap at 0..2047).
> 
> It seems the EFI partition is created but not formatted nor mounted.
> After that, the install fails obviously.
> 
> In dmesg: FAT-fs (sda1): IO charset ascii not found
> 
> Mounting is succesful if done with 'mount /dev/sda1 /target/boot/efi -o
> iocharset=utf8' in a shell. mkfs.fat -F32 is also not a problem.
> 
> But installer is unaware of course, and cannot proceed.
> 
> >From IRC interaction with 'KIBI' and 'bwh' it is apparent that nls_ascii
> module is missing after default FAT mount options have changed in the
> kernel (commit 0e156c15e31ac4f3e160a6ac262b172d0390d7e8).

As debian-boot@ people might have noticed, I filed this bug report
accordingly:

  #839552: linux: please add nls_ascii to fat-modules udeb


KiBi.

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