Here's what I (Robert) did for comment 12:

- Taking http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.10/release/ubuntu-11.10-preinstalled-desktop-armel+omap.img.gz
- Checking its sha256sum
- sudo sh -c 'zcat ./ubuntu-11.10-preinstalled-desktop-armel+omap.img.gz |dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdc ; sync'
results in:
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Platte /dev/sdc: 7948 MByte, 7948206080 Byte
128 Köpfe, 32 Sektoren/Spur, 3790 Zylinder, zusammen 15523840 Sektoren
Einheiten = Sektoren von 1 × 512 = 512 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *          32      147455       73712    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdc2          147456     4278271     2065408   83  Linux
- Booting the BeagleBoard with this card shows the bug.

- Getting the deb files from comment 13
- dpkg -X x-loader-omap3-beagle_1.5.0+git20110325+b6bbfe7-1ubuntu1_armel.deb .
(remark: what's the difference to lower case -x ?)
- dpkg -X u-boot-linaro-omap3-beagle_2011.04.2-0ubuntu1_armel.deb .
- sudo mkdir /mnt/sdc1; sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1/
- cp /mnt/sdc1/* sdc1.bak/
- sudo umount /mnt/sdc1
- sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdc1
- sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1/
- cp -r sdc1.bak/ sdc1.changed
- cp usr/lib/x-loader/omap3530beagle/MLO sdc1-changed/
- cp usr/lib/u-boot/omap3_beagle/u-boot.bin sdc1-changed/
- sudo cp sdc1-changed/MLO /mnt/sdc1/
- mv sdc1-changed/MLO . # away
- sudo cp sdc1-changed/* /mnt/sdc1/
- sudo umount /mnt/sdc1
- Booting the BeagleBoard with this card shows the bug.