Inode error woes

[Piltdownster]

skoal wrote:
 
> When shutting down (or rebooting) from Ubuntu, have you at any point
> ever seen it hang _just_ before it reboots (or tries to)?  If so,
> although I thought this was old news by now, you could be having ACPI
> issues with your particular hardware, even though it apparently does
> not affect you on Windows.

I haven't noticed any odd "hanging" before reboot. Must admit, the ACPI
issue passed me by! If it is an ACPI problem, is it possible to switch ACPI
off by editing grub's menu.lst, i.e. 

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash acpi=off

Thanks