hondagx35 wrote:
Your /boot and /root have to be from the same image.as far as I can see /boot is identical, given the same kernel version
I don't think so. Where did you get the kernel version from?
Frank
/boot looks pretty similar to me after "pacman -Sy --force raspberrypi-firmware raspberrypi-bootloader linux-raspberrypi" on both versions (initially after uprading to a 4.9.x kernel and still now after the downgrade I mentioned in this post).
Robert