On AWS, mount the root volume to another host and arch-chroot. Need package arch-install-scripts package installed to run arch-chroot. To avoid this situation, TAKE SNAPSHOT BEFORE DOING ANY KERNEL UPDATES! Record bad kernel version at start. TODO: Verify that chrooted root volume kernel version by running pacman -Q | grep linux chroot /mnt; pacman -Q | grep linux Revert to an older kernel by: cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg Hopefully there's a recent version to revert to. ls -ltr linux* (use wildcard to narrow to only the base kernel package) pacman -U linux-specific*