[SOLVED] Strange hieroglyphics displayed after Grub screen

EvilRob · 2017-09-16 21:32:36

Greetings. I need some help with this problem I've been experiencing with these strange characters displayed after the Grub screen and the initial ramdisk loads. This happens on my ThinkPad 11e using vanilla Arch as well as Antergos and Manjaro. I have my ThinkPad currently in BIOS Legacy mode. I'm not sure which config files I need to look at to fix this issue. Although the problem corrects itself as the system boots, this makes things pretty difficult when I want to set my laptop up to boot from an encrypted LVM.

Last edited by EvilRob (2017-09-17 03:02:25)

jasonwryan · 2017-09-16 21:36:31

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

And include some details of your card and driver.

EvilRob · 2017-09-17 02:53:55

Sorry about the image size. I used the smallest setting on my camera. Also further reducing it to a thumbnail size would probably make the photo difficult to represent what I was attempting to describe.

I solved the problem by commenting out a line in /etc/default/grub:

#GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

After commenting that line and running grub-mkconfig, all kernel messages are now legible.

Last edited by EvilRob (2017-09-17 02:56:55)

jasonwryan · 2017-09-17 02:59:40

EvilRob wrote:

Also further reducing it to a thumbnail size would probably make the photo difficult to represent what I was attempting to describe.

CoC wrote:

Do not post full screen pictures; use links to the images instead, optionally with thumbnails.

Glad you got it sorted.

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#1 2017-09-16 21:32:36

[SOLVED] Strange hieroglyphics displayed after Grub screen

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