recovery boot console

[griv]

Just wanted to end this thread with my fix.

I ended up having to restore from a backup, then prevented the kernel from being updated via:

Terminal

echo "linux-image-bcm2836 hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

Then proceeded to upgrade everything else through apt-get as normal.

I should also for anyone reading - xbian-compress can certainly take a while to show any progress - it took hours to complete for me.

Thanks as always for the help, especially to @Nachteule as I read their solution in the previously mentioned thread.