You won't get firmware update menu without PS.FI2 file with valid (encoded with camera keys) content. But that's not nessesary now. Autoboot will work fine for us at the moment.
The main trouble is in under-exposed photos. As was mentioned earlier, the 1st gajownik's build ran fine and took good pictures. Something has changed since that time. We really need to try to adapt SX120 port to build and run on several SVN revisions between r816 and current trunk, then figure out what caused such misbehavior and fix it.
I think that first of all we need to test revisions
860, 850, 846, 825. These are ones before huge changes (API, new features). The port should be fixed to build on every such revision, statring from r816 and then 825, 846,...
BTW Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!