[arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Wed Nov 4 06:04:04 EST 2009


On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> 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


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