On 06/09/2011 10:26 AM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
[ 2.262329] Freeing init memory: 292K init: hwclock main process (519) killed by ILL signal
SIGILL issue requires CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP2 enabled to see it. Disabling CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP2 (and fixing stuff like EXT4 and DEVTMPFS being disabled) gets a boot without display but no SIGILL.
-Andy