Comment 47 for bug 1079440

(In reply to comment #25)
> I couldn't find a "commit" with the number Chris gave. But I loaded up the
> "3.8.0-997_3.8.0-997.201302180432" kernel from "drm-intel-next". However,
> despite the fact that it seems to have built and installed okay, it dies
> with an almost-all-black screen a few seconds after it starts initializing
> the ramfs. I repeated it all and got the same results. Both downloads of the
> parts gave the same md5sums as follows:

That's a complete different problem. And a critical one to boot. Normally if it breaks that early it is because the initramfs is broken and needs to be rebuilt. Try passing nomodeset to your kernel as it boots and see if that makes diagnosing the problem easier.

Besides the date on kernel is earlier than the patch I referenced to fix the original issue.