The issue was more around me already having a bootloader and boot partition set up (rEFInd) that worked fine, but trying to get Arch to be bootable from that pr

The issue was more around me already having a bootloader and boot partition set up (rEFInd) that worked fine, but trying to get Arch to be bootable from that pre-existing one while still setting up swap and the other partitions it wanted. I also spent a really long time dealing with the fact that my motherboard clock was out of sync, so when I was setting up pacman, it couldn't validate certs because of the clock issue, but not being able to install packages made it really hard to fix the clock sync issue.