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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Stephan Schreiber wrote:

> In my opinion you can say that the
> fat-modules-3.2.0-3-itanium-di_3.2.23-1_ia64.udeb lacks the nls_iso8859-1
> module, so debian/elilo.sh is not able to do its work.
> Since fat-modules-3.2.0-3-itanium-di_3.2.23-1_ia64.udeb is build by the
> kernel-image-3.2.0-3-itanium-di package, the bug should be assigned here.

So the next step is either to convince Debian's kernel maintainers
that it is worth including that module in the installer, or the elilo
maintainers that debian/elilo.sh should not use iocharset=iso8859-1,
or both.

[...]
> I think mounting FAT using UTF-8 isn't wise at all.

In general, for what it's worth I disagree about that, but I wouldn't
be surprised if there are other considerations in this particular case
(if so, what are they?).

Hope that helps,
Jonathan