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Out of curiosity: Which operating system(s) can you shutdown while the kernel is being overwritten? I wouldn't imagine that as a limitation of Arch Linux specifically.
23 1 ReplyI think fedora would survive this abuse. It doesn't replace when you install kernels, but instead adds it.
20 1 ReplyAlso Fedora ships 3 kernels by default. If one breaks, maybe the others will keep working.
9 1 ReplyWith Manjaro you choose how much kernels you want.
4 0 ReplyArch let's you install kernels till /boot is full...
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Ubuntu (and probably Debian too) will keep an old kernel in your grub list so you can boot off that one if needed.
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Mint definitely keeps a couple of previous kernels around, so that might be a Debian and Ubuntu thing too.
That said, there's always going to be a critical point of failure that a power loss could cause things to break, no matter your OS or distro.
Writing the bootloader or updating a partition table for example.
9 0 ReplyArch Linux with 2 kernels ;)
9 0 ReplyAnything running on a copy-on-write filesystem can trivially rollback changes using a rescue partition.
I also expect most immutable distros would be able to be especially good at tanking this.
7 0 ReplyWindows
Goes back to a previous restore point
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