[arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Leonid Isaev]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:25:16AM +0000, niya levi via arch-general wrote:
> yes
> in locale.gen i uncommented the following and ran locale-gen
> en_US.UTF-8
> en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> locale.conf has
> lang=en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> vconsole.conf has
> KEYMAP=uk
> 
> when booting it gets past the grub stage
> it print booting linux
> then loading ramdisk
> then the whatever follows displays unreadable block character.
> shadrock

Just to check, does "locale -c charmap" return UTF-8? If yes, then it seems
there is an issue with your default console font (I assume you didn't put
anything like this on the kernel command line). So, try changing the console
font either by the kernel cmdline or at runtime in a tty console:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts .

Also, what is your graphics card, and how do you load the graphics driver
(automatically, early in ramdisk via MODULES= in mkinitcpio.conf, etc.)? Try
booting with nomodeset at the kernel cmdline to disable KMS and see if your
fonts get back to normal...

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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