Those instructions the OP has followed in the GIT are flawed and will end up in a corrupted installation. If you extract using TAR instead of BSDTAR, you will truncate all of the file and directory access permissions which Arch needs in order to function correctly. For best results ONLY follow the o...

The first Installation steps I took were to follow the ArchLinuxARM Install wikki to the letter. Getting this right is important as it will affect everything else down the track (like user permissions which are truncated by tar causing file access escalation issues; like needing to run ping as a sup...