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Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by srcmap on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:59PM (#15012266)
This will be the time where setup HW watch dog should help.

After the upgrade, before the reboot, setup the HW watch dog for 2-5 minutes. Setup the boot-old-kernel flags as default in the uboot/EFI/grub/or your system boot loader.

If the upgrade the successful (connect to back to the server) and function correctly, disable the "boot-old-kernel" flags in your bootloader.

As always, do a lot of testing and automate those tests. You will be surprise how often a simple boot/reset/power cycle can fail if you repeat it over and over again in a weekend.

Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by cperciva on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:02PM (#15012291)
Hmm, you can set a watchdog before rebooting? I assumed that it would be cleared automatically.