On Sunday 06 December 2009 22:30:29 and regarding:
Did you know you can append "3" to the kernel line in the boot menu of GRUB in order to boot in init 3? This would avoid loading X and could be useful for you.
I have no idea what could be causing your problem, however.
Sébastien Leblanc
Yes, I know, but for some reason I think I had tried that several times in March when I first loaded arch and it didn't work so I just went to the fallback mount/bind/chroot method (I have the cd's in my end table). If I had to actually go get the cd, I probably would have tried it again :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com