I ended up compiling the kernel again and deactivating the TI MDIO driver from menuconfig. After this tweak the 3.8 kernel boots fine.
I briefly described what i did here<http://erlerobot.com/blog/another-stone-in-the-way/>. Hope somebody can benefit from it. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.