I reinstalled my Dell Latitude D630 this afternoon using the new Arch Linux installer (2010.05) netinstall. I had an issue however where the live image would start to boot and then I’d get a blank screen. I quickly realized what the problem was, and found a fix.

Note: it looks like it is a similar issue to the one found here.

Basically, the fix that I found, was to append the following to the kernel line at the initial boot prompt:

nomodeset

This is done by hitting the [TAB] key at the boot prompt of the installer and appending that text to the end.

I wanted to get this out in hopes that it’d help others with the same problem.

Good luck, and happy Arch’ing.