[arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install SOLVED

[niya levi]

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:55 PM, niya levi via arch-general
> <arch-general at archlinux.org
> <https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote:
> >/is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in />//etc/default/grub to make it permenant ? />/shadrock /
> If you change things in /etc/default/grub, you have to # grub-mkconfig
> -o /boot/grub/grub.chf to make the changes available to grub, whose
> config is read at a time when no other file systems are visible...
>
> cheers!
> mar77i

thanks everyone for all the advice,
i ran 
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and it boots up fine now.
shadrock