recovery boot console

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Thanks for your reply, I was trying to avoid starting from scratch so I was doing some reading in this forum and found helpful advice, which was to copy an old boot partition (which I have from a year or so ago from my old SD card that this new SD is a copy of), so now I can boot up directly into a terminal (kodi doesn't start, though). On boot I get an error:

Terminal

/usr/bin/splash: line 73: /sbin/initctl: not found

After this error it asks me to login, so once I'm in the terminal all my data is there (which is good I guess...). However, I am unable to downgrade my kernel due to the following error:

Terminal

FATAL: you have LZ4 compression enabled, but
this is not longer supported by kernel v4.19.90+
Please recompress filesystem by running 'sudo xbian-compress'

Now I don't want to run "xbian-compress" after reading in the previously mentioned thread @Nachteule saying it was a bad idea. However the kernel I am on is:

Terminal

xbian@xbian / $ sudo apt-cache policy linux-image-bcm2836
linux-image-bcm2836:
Installed: 4.19.90+-1576699354
Candidate: 4.19.90+-1576699354
Version table:
*** 4.19.90+-1576699354 500
500 http://apt.xbian.org stable/rpi2-stretch armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
4.19.75+-1569331168 500
500 http://apt.xbian.org stable/rpi2-stretch armhf Packages
4.19.72+-1568320584 500
500 http://apt.xbian.org stable/rpi2-stretch armhf Packages
4.9.108+-1530490703 500
500 http://apt.xbian.org stable/armv7l-stretch armhf Packages

So I'm a bit confused whether I want the LZ4 compression or not? And whether or not to run xbian-compress in order to downgrade the kernel?