[Solved!]Arch grub2 install from cd

Hi, I'm somewhat new to Arch, but not new to Linux. I'm very new though to UEFI and I just did a Windows 7 install on my new desktop with 8gbs of ram. before I installed Windows I tried Arch on it and got it to work without a gui, but that's beside the point. In order to Install windows I had to overwrite my Arch install, because Windows 7 refused to write to the hard drive.
My issue is that I have a comp that has BIOS and UEFI, but I can't use both so I've been trying to install grub2 using these instructions Arch Linux Grub2 but for some reason after I chroot into the system and start using pacman it gives the no address record error after the first refresh. So I tried different repos and they didn't work. I also tried the same repo and it won't refresh. I've looked all over for a solution, but I haven't found one. I've went over my pacman.conf and mirrorlist files and the only thing that I changed on them is uncommenting 1 repo in the mirrorlist. I can ping google and the repos too so it's not my network. I need grub2 in order to dual-boot Arch and Windows 7 with UEFI as I understand it. Any ideas?
Edit: I just tried it a few days later and it worked. I'm guessing my ISP or the mirrors were affecting it somehow.
Last edited by Jonnothin (2011-10-20 21:18:07)

Okay. I'm using dhcp, but could the connection be intermittent given the current info? Because near the beginning of my trying to do this it started to download and one time I even got pacman updated, but stopped working soon afterward.
Last edited by Jonnothin (2011-10-18 21:00:02)

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