[arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[niya levi]

> hi everyone
> after an install following the wiki installation guide and rebooting
> the login  screen shows unreadable characters,
> the char displays as rectangular and square blocks,
> locale.conf is set to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk
> i also tried adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the but
> no joy after rebooting,
> the installation screen was fine.
> any ideas ?

> ---- On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Ralf Mardorf<silver.bullet at zoho.com
> <https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote ---- 
>  > Which login screen? 
>  >  
>  > A display manager's greeter? If so, xorg.conf or display manager settings might solve the issue. 
>
> Oops, I was confusing keyboard with fonts. Not xorg.conf, but much likely the display manager configuration provides to chose a font.
>
>  >  
>  > Or tty?
>  > 
sorry i mean the login at the console,

it a file server without xorg, display manger etc.

shadrock