Arch Linux, first install issues!

So I have been at this all morning and I am ready to smash my laptop with a sledge hammer. Just teasing y'all cuz I know how much y'all want to see that!

Seriously though, this is aggregating! I started with a bsdcpio error that was fixed by using the core install instead of the netinstall version. Then I was getting an error about address space collission that I aslo permanently fixed by appending pci=nocrs to my menu.conf in my boot folder. Now I only receive a udev error. The biggest issue is I have to manually mount my hard drive with a live CD because I am dropped into a limited recovery shell if I boot straight from the HDD. I can see the partitions when I use blkid or mount or even when I use ls /dev | grep "^sd".

Can someone please freaking help me!

Figured it out.

please share your solution with the rest of us, so that others who have this problem may benefit as well.

On boot I realized my laptop was looking for an sda partition. I manually mounted my hard drive from the CD and changed fstab entries from sdb to sda and it booted.

I forgot to mention I added usb to the hooks param in mkinitcpio.conf It's needed in order to boot from an external hard drive or USB.