Bug 76203

Summary:	The cp437 codepage option under NLS is not set in kernel config; cannot mount vfat partitions
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Wes Janzen <superchkn>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ppc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Wes Janzen 2004-12-30 20:51:06 UTC

As far as I can tell (from kernel archives) the cp437 option must be enabled in the kernel config to allow vfat or fat partition mounting.  According to the config file for the G4 kernel on the ppc livecd 2004.3, it is not set.  This is supported by the "cp437 not found" in the logs when I try to mount my flash drive.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to mount a vfat or fat partition
2.Look at dmesg for the cp437 message

Actual Results:  
An error about cp437 not being found in the log and then a bad "superblock ..."
message from mount.

Expected Results:  
Found cp437 and mounted the partition.

Comment 1 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-09 02:12:53 UTC

Will be changed with the next release.

Comment 2 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-23 16:55:03 UTC

All nls-options are included as a kernel-module on the 2005.0 ppc LiveCD.

Comment 3 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-27 19:55:28 UTC

2005.0 has been released, feel free to reopen the bug if you still have problems with the new release.