[Solved] Encoding fails during boot

silentsnake · 2012-08-06 00:55:35

Hi,

after doing a fresh installation of Arch Linux I get some strange chars during the early phase of init. It looks like there is something wrong with my locale.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/688/bootu.png/

I've uncommented the en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 line within /etc/locale.gen, executed locale-gen successfully and created /etc/locale.conf with LANG=en_US.UTF-8. (Also tried to quote the value, but makes no difference)

I don't think its important but I also set my KEYMAP to de-latin1-nodeadkeys within /etc/vconsole.conf.

Is this behavior normal or is it possible to "fix" it?

Thanks

Last edited by silentsnake (2012-08-06 20:02:56)

DSpider · 2012-08-06 06:08:48

Let me guess.

Syslinux.

John0000 · 2012-08-06 10:53:11

I've the exact same thing on the exact same lines. Also curious about this...
@DSpider : why do you think it's related to syslinux? In the new install I made on virtual box I installed grub-bios and not syslinux.

silentsnake · 2012-08-06 13:28:01

Thanks for your replies!

DSpider, you are right… I am using Syslinux. Is there anything wrong with using it? (It reads like that ^^) I don't do any fancy stuff, I just need something that loads Arch and Syslinux seemed to be the most lightweight approach for that. But I could easily switch to grub2 if you point out any advantages of it.

kokoko3k · 2012-08-06 15:18:02

Happens here with syslinux, but not with grub2, Vmware player.
But i still prefer syslinux over grub2.

silentsnake · 2012-08-06 15:40:48

Looks like it's a problem with virtualization. I have installed arch on a real machine today and there is no such problem. The screenshot was taken on VMware too.

Last edited by silentsnake (2012-08-06 15:41:06)

DSpider · 2012-08-06 18:37:33

So it happens in VirtualBox, it happens in VMware Player and I can tell you from personal experience that it happens on a bare-bones ("real machine") install too.

You're not the first to notice it: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144437

He thought it was a virus.

It definitely happens with Syslinux, and it only happens briefly with GRUB2 (more like a twitch, really).

While video drivers shouldn't really matter (since it also happens when virtualized), installing open source drivers and enabling KMS Early Start deals with it completely.

silentsnake · 2012-08-06 20:08:44

I've marked the thread as solved, since I now know what causes it. Because I used KMS on my pc i didn't get this problem there. I can't get KMS working for the VM, but it's not much a problem there. Just wanted to check, if something is configured wrong. So thanks for your help. (And sorry for missing the other thread about that topic).

Dillweed · 2012-08-19 01:36:52

I know this has been solved, but posting anyways so hopefully someone else will benefit. I was using the same setup and getting the same strange characters. I found that making sure that I had a "vconsole.conf" file in /etc fixed this problem.

kokoko3k · 2012-08-19 12:05:40

Even an empty one? Weird!

-EDIT
Nope, you need to specify the font as suggested in the wiki

Last edited by kokoko3k (2012-08-27 16:32:30)

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