Hi,

FWIW, I looked at Anton's logs, and I don't think the boot failed, per
se. I think it may have timed out (but not positive on that). I was
able to boot 2.6.27-git17 on the exact same box, albeit it locks up
at a later point (the sd abort I e-mailed about in a follow-up).

This fail bisects down to the VPHN (shared processor affinity) patch.
I've got some fixes on the way.

Anton