Hello 270426,
The shutdown also works with a stock kernel compiled from the new
kernel-source-2.6.8-8, so that
* [ACPI] reserve EBDA for Dell BIOS that neglects to.
(Possible fix for: Bug#277298) (Simon Horman)
probably fixes this as well.
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