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Before the update I had linux-raspberrypi-3.1.9-33-arm and raspberrypi-firmware-20120418-2 installed. After I upgraded to raspberrypi-firmware-20120729-1, the kernel refused to boot (no kernel panics or messages) but start.elf started.

Copying start.elf from raspberrypi-firmware-20120418-2 (old firmware) causes it to boot, but then the kernel panics.

Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init
PANIC:Attempted to kill init!

Removing all the USB devices it managed to boot into a crippled state.

cmdline.txt

smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 loglevel=2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait

Why won't the new firmware work at all?

EDIT: All of the firmware packages in the mirrors are useless except for the old image

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Can you give a dump of the whole boot log? That error message means that something quite serious has happened. – Jivings♦ Jul 30 '12 at 7:37
Did you check the md5/sha1-sum of your downloaded image? – Joost Jul 30 '12 at 7:50
@Joost: He's only upgraded the firmware on a working image. – Jivings♦ Jul 30 '12 at 8:21
@Jivings Can't seem to find /var/log/messages. – ArchHaskeller Jul 30 '12 at 17:20
So none of the firmware packages worked for you? I haven't had a problem on my system. – Jivings♦ Aug 1 '12 at 23:31
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