Multiboot Start a shell option doesn't work

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Reboot or boot n900 with opened keypad and multiboot installed
2. Press S key to start a shell in multiboot start up options screen
3. Screen turns black and after a few seconds system shutdown

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
A command shell should open ?

What is your device, RootFS, Multiboot and kernel versions?
N900, multiboot v0.2.10-1, Maemo 2.6.28-omap1,Maemo power39 and 
Nitdroid-2.6.28-Nit05    
What was installation method?
Default
Please provide any additional information below. Logs (logcat, dmesg) are
highly appreciated. (log collector available @
http://downloads.nitdroid.com/android-log-collector-1.1.0.apk)
A multiboot.log file with 0bytes is created

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 6 Sep 2010 at 10:06