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Naivurn

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Registered: 2015-12-25

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[Solved] Weird white block characters when booting into Arch

I just installed Arch on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 3, using the Thinkpad in Legacy Mode BIOS/MBR. I deleted all partitions off of /dev/sda, then partitioned /dev/sda/ into sda1, an unencrypted boot partition, and sda2, an encrypted root partition using `dm-crypt`.

Perhaps relevantly? When I ran grub-install, I got the warning "this GPT partition label contains no BIOS boot Partition; embedding wont be possible". As far as I could tell I did in fact have a BIOS boot partition, so I ran

grub-install --recheck --force /dev/sda

to force install, which gave me the same warning but no errors.

When I restarted, I booted into Grub successfully and selected Arch Linux from the menu. Now the terminal I get out looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/JNEKYHT.jpg?2

It looks like the terminal itself is functional; at least when I type echo <string> it produces strings approximately the length and close to the appearance of the original <string>. It looks like there's a consistent mapping between alphabet characters to weird white block-symbols, but I'd rather not have to transcribe it all... I typed

setfont sun12x22

and it had no effect.

I can still boot from the archiso on the USB and get access to the system through there.

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Last edited by Naivurn (2015-12-26 01:12:22)

Naivurn

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Re: [Solved] Weird white block characters when booting into Arch

This was a resolution issue with Grub, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … resolution. I fixed it by adding vga=792 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub.

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Re: [Solved] Weird white block characters when booting into Arch

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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