Interesting... I got it to work by re-doing the initfs_flash script after installing Debian. It actually didn't take very long to boot this time. An interesting artifact; the screen was still blank and white, but I got a mouse pointer on the screen so I moved the pointer around. It revealed a NOKIA logo as it moved across the screen!

I am kind of amazed; I didn't expect to see the Hildon desktop. Is there any way that I can get dropped to a root terminal by default, or to a menu of window managers? I wanted to try XFCE4, but I have no idea how to exit the Hildon WM.

By the way, the hildon-style pop-up keyboard is very cool!