Arch Linux, failed to flag boot

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I was installing Arch , near the while installing syslinux, I received an error message saying "failed to flag boot" I don't
remember the entire error message. I did edit the syslinux to recognize the correct partition for root, then exited and reboot. I wasn't expecting it to boot, I was expecting something to be there that I would be able to edit and fix the situation later. It seems like nothing is there at all only a partitioned drive.

My question is, because of the error I had did I lose my entire setup? Or Is it I am just not experienced enough to get back in?

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do you need to set boot partition to "bootable"?? sorry i dont use syslinux

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When I have edited the syslinux.cfg file before to correctly label root, everything has worked out fine.

What do you use?

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grub2

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You might need to mark the actual partition as bootable. That can only be done in a pertition editor.

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Ok. Can you be more specific? I am on my 6th try on this computer and I dont know why it wont work this this time.

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You should try booting into the installation cd and then use a program like gdisk or parted to label the partition as bootable

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