On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:01 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Arch you of course always have the 'fallback' boot > option (which can be expected to work), or you can boot > from the original netinstall CD. But it's by no means > clear to me how you could 'rewind' a failed kernel update > using either of these. > This is why you don't immediately clean out your /var/cache/pacman/pkg directory. In case of some catastrophic failure (like a kernel upgrade), you still have your previous kernel package tucked away for re-installation.