Unable to see Arch in rEFInd on MacBook Pro 11,3

Hello fellow Arch users!
I installed Arch on my MBP as per the wiki, using the latest arch boot-network.iso on a USB stick.  The stick booted just fine from rEFInd after using dd to copy the image to the stick.  After the installation (sans bootloader, because I plan on using rEFInd) I exited the installer and restarted into rEFInd, however the new Arch partition (ext4) did not show up.
I have ensured that "scan_all_linux_kernels" and "also_scan_dirs" are appended to the refined.conf file as well.
I had to create my /etc/fstab file by hand, could this possibly be the problem?  I think rEFInd is just looking for the initramfs file on the partition to boot from.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks!

FWIW, rEFInd 0.7.5 includes a fix that should make it more reliable on the Mac models that had problems with multiple EFI drivers installed. I've received a couple of reports that this fix helps, but I have yet to see enough reports to be convinced that it fixes issues on 100% of affected computers. (Apple's firmware varies so much from one model to another that it's impossible to say with certainty how something will work based on sampling just a couple of computers.)

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