Comment 2 for bug 1083337

hmm, intresting, i can confirm this under raring as well.
the bootloader does some evil stuff already on normal boots (setting a hardcoded prefix for the kernel cmdline).
i would actually blame the bootloader here (to which we have no further access beyond fastboot and the ABL UI).

not booting from the start option but just letting the device boot seems to work just fine though.