kernel: some boottime sanitychecks

kernel: some boottime sanitychecks

	. Check if we have the right number of boot modules
	. Check if the ELF parsing of VM actually succeeded

Both these are root causes of less-than-obvious other
errors/asserts a little further down the line; uncovered
while experimenting with booting by iPXE, specifically
(a) iPXE having a 8-multiboot-modules limit and
(b) trying to boot a gzipped VM.