Daaem, I guess the poor dude at the receiving end did not consider it particularly fun. Well, at least they had sbin working, so probably possible to recover without a live cd. Huh, guess who’s now spinning up a VM to check it out 🤣
Checked it out: on arch that results in inability to run tty on reboot, then you’re dropped into initramfs’s rescue shell where you can simply +x new_root’s /usr/bin/* and be back up and running