I looked at the pacstrap file and created the correct directories and then did pacsrv -Sy -r /mnt base base-devel.
After about 10 minutes I get a kernel panic on screen and the caps lock and scroll lock lights on my keyboard are flashing.
The first lines that are still on my screen are:
[ 2029.587975] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 978
[ 2029.704651] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
After that it just does a call trace.
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