Weird dots, lines, special characters with triggering uevents.

I'm trying to install arch on my uefi laptop and I'm going into UEFI Shell x86_64 v2, letting it load then exiting and starting up the Arch Linux archiso x86_64 UEFI CD and it's just displaying a ton of random dots, lines, underscores, etc. I've tried selecting the boot option and hitting tab to see if I can't add a boot option, but that doesn't even let me append options to it. Here's a picture of what's going on since I don't even know what this is called to begin searching for answers on it.
http://i50.tinypic.com/24njtwl.jpg

Ed
Can you tell us whether your async line configuration includes the command no exec?
I have seen situations where async lines used for reverse telnet/terminal server and configured with the default setting of exec will send extra/garbage characters to the console of the controlled device.
HTH
Rick

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http://i.imgur.com/JsTurIO.png
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Epictek wrote:
davidjosepha wrote:
I'm getting an error when I try to build...
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