On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:58:36PM +0200, John Black wrote: > mhh is there a way to install package onto a non-bootable system > using pacman? Yes, just boot from a live CD, mount your root partition and either chroot into it or use the live CD's pacman(8) binary (and the "--root" argument) if the non-bootable system's pacman doesn't work. > I remember that binutils and glibc was updated, so if I could > reverse that I would not have to reload the OS. I'm not sure if downgrading binutils and glibc only will result in a running system but give it a try :>
