I had this error. 13 fixed it.
Does that mean you experienced the "potentially bogus panel power sequencing delays, which may harm the LCD panel" ? If so, was your LCD panel harmed?
As another commenter mentioned, fancy pants filesystems that support snapshots simplify this situation.
This is what I used. zfsbootmenu is an EFI executable with support for doing zfs rollbacks (and any other arbitrary zfs command) so as long as my EFI partition is left untouched, I don't need a livecd or another partition or anything.
Maybe just didn’t want to boot on faulty kernel at all, now that the risk of permanently damaging the display was known.