On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Listmates, > > New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with > 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you > leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader). [the /arch/setup > menu autoadvances when you leave Configure System and if you click > Done and downarrow anticipating moving to the next item, you can > easily miss configuring the bootloader (I did ;-)] arch is not, was not and will never be a hand-holding distro. if anyone doesn't pay attention and just skips steps it's that persons own problem imho. (in fact the interactive installer already does too much handholding) Dieter