Installing on Macbook Air 4,2 - why can I not get this done?

Question

I am trying so desperately to install Arch and dual-boot on my Macbook Air.  I'm not an Arch noob - I promise.  I've installed and loved arch on my old laptop a couple years back but that was not a mac. 
I've been here but all it says is that this "works out of the box".  Unfortunately, I can't get that far.
I flashed Archboot to my USB thumb stick using DD and booted into it using ReFind.  I can't remember what the first option was, but I believe it was Arch-something with EFI.  I chose that and I got an error message: 
Failed to open file:  boot\intel-ucode.img
Trying to load files to higher address
Failed to open file: boot\intel-ucode.img
So, I chose the second option which says (I'm sorry, I'm in my OSX right now so I'mg telling this from memory) something like Arch-something without EFI.  Then I got to the actual install console.  I created some partitions using cgdisk and chose my packages but they all failed to install due to a dependency missing.  I'm really sorry I don't know what that error was.  After I post this I will go back and try again and see if I Can get a screen shot.
Anyhow - This is nothing like my install was on my old PC laptop and I feel like I'm not even sure if I'm going down the right path.  Does anyone know of a youtube video which shows this process?  Honestly, as much as I've used Arch in the past, I truly feel like a dumbass right now but I'm willing to risk my reputation for a rig that runs the sweetest Linux there is.
Thanks -
Whatever you need, logs, etc... no problem - but tell me where to get them because I'm not sure how to with my system in limbo like this.

Answer 1

Alright, only problem is that the beginner's guide talks about entering things at a prompt - like "# sgdisk --zap-all /dev/sda".  i'm not at a prompt.  I'm in the GUI Archboot console.  Also, I don't see instructions on which partitions to create, what size to make them, etc..  and, I still don't know why the original option in Archboot failed - the one that prompted me that it could not find boot/intel-ucode/img.  It's not that I haven't read the documentation and it's also not that I'm too stupid to figure it out - I feel like I'm on the wrong track. For example, the Beginner's Guide doesn't even mention instructions for Archboot - which is what I'm using.  By the way, thank you for your response.  I don't want to sound ungrateful
Last edited by burgertime (2014-12-21 02:08:22)