First of all, bisect003 crashes as well, with or without headers.
I looks like I kinda jumped to a conclusion too fast, as I am unable to reproduce the no-header-boot link.
The reason why I was led to believe this is that I installed bisect001-image without headers and suddenly I could boot 2.6.39-1. I keep this image and also try it to check if something else has changed the boot behavior. I've now tried for an hour to reproduce the no-header-boot link with no luck, so I would regard my previous statement as false.
First of all, bisect003 crashes as well, with or without headers.
I looks like I kinda jumped to a conclusion too fast, as I am unable to reproduce the no-header-boot link.
The reason why I was led to believe this is that I installed bisect001-image without headers and suddenly I could boot 2.6.39-1. I keep this image and also try it to check if something else has changed the boot behavior. I've now tried for an hour to reproduce the no-header-boot link with no luck, so I would regard my previous statement as false.