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

2012-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:17:53PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: 'iocharset=iso8859-1' is actually the default; you would need to override the default by specifying 'iocharset=utf8'. Ah, right. Yes, in that case I agree we can just lose the

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

2012-10-16 Thread Stephan Schreiber
Jonathan Nieder wrote: 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. Life is hard, I can tell you. I hoped you would do it

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

2012-10-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
Stephan Schreiber i...@fs-driver.org writes: Jonathan Nieder wrote: 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. Life

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

2012-10-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 01:51:07PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: Stephan Schreiber i...@fs-driver.org writes: [...] Ben Hutchings wrote: None of this is particularly relevant to the EFI boot volume, though, as all filenames on there should be ASCII-only. You are right. It doesn't really

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

2012-10-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: 'iocharset=iso8859-1' is actually the default; you would need to override the default by specifying 'iocharset=utf8'. Ah, right. Yes, in that case I agree we can just lose the explicit iocharset setting in elilo.sh. I can reassign this to elilo and

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

2012-10-09 Thread Stephan Schreiber
I'm surprised that I could shock you with the severity level :-). The bug prevents the script from installing ELILO on the EFI System partition (ESP) when a user attempts to install Debian with a Debian installation CD or DVD. The user won't be able to workaround this on an opened console if

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

2012-10-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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

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

2012-10-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:09:46PM +0200, Stephan Schreiber wrote: [...] Julien Cristau wrote: 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 I think

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

2012-10-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:09:46PM +0200, Stephan Schreiber wrote: [...] I don't want to start a discussion about the UTF-8 default for FAT here but you can read, for example, in the Using UTF-8 with Gentoo [2] of the Gentoo project: You should avoid setting Default iocharset for fat to UTF-8,

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

2012-10-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 685186 + moreinfo # letting version tracking do its work tags 685186 - wheezy # if I understand correctly, it is still possible to use the kernel on # itanium, so the package is not unusable severity 685186 important quit Hi, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 17:07:00 +0200,

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

2012-08-19 Thread Stephan Schreiber
Source: kernel-image-3.2.0-3-itanium-di 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

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

2012-08-19 Thread Julien Cristau
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

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

2012-08-17 Thread Stephan Schreiber
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst CD Image version: a self build netinst CD which bases on the data of Wheezy beta-1 and the patch proposals of Bug#678883 and Bug#679545 Date: Aug. 17, 2012 Machine: Dell PowerEdge 3250 Processor: 2x Itanium Madison 1.5GHz 6M Memory: 4G