talking archlinux post installation question

[Jude DaShiell]

I did this on an amd64 athelon k8 machine with nvidia sound card video 
output and ethernet card.  Once installation of archlinux was finished 
using the current version of talking archlinux, and I rebooted the hard 
drive spins up but no evidence that the sound card and speakers are even 
working appears until I hit a key on the keyboard about a minute after the 
disk spins up.  Once I hit a key, archlinux starts talking but only after 
I hit a key.  So, I have a couple questions.  Is what I did properly 
considered a successful installation, and if not what step did I leave out 
of that installation which would have made archlinux talk at some point 
during the boot up process without the necessity of touching the keyboard 
first?



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