[Sholander]

No boot.ini can get overwritten with updates and you are back to square 1, for CoreELEC you now use config.ini

I made the same mistake initially. 

I looked at config.ini, and it appeared to be a completely different format, and just a template from the C2 (everything is commented out). If the file is static, perhaps mine is from an early test build 

Yes, that is default setting of config.ini. You uncomment only settings that you want to use.