I'm not really clear about the state of your machine, but it seems like you are past your problem. I'm going to close this report.
As for the shutdown problem, try booting from a Live CD and then shutdown from a command line: 'sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now'. If that doesn't work properly then file a new bug report on that specific regression. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Assignee: Tim Gardner => Ubuntu Kernel Team Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- feisty herd-5 2.6.20 kernel hangs on boot with VIA VB6002 motherboard https://launchpad.net/bugs/95165 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs