Mr Benedict, I have a lenovo laptop, and i have been facing the same problem - right from the day I have installed linux - with dualbooting.
after shutting down the OS, the power LED will be glowing intermittently, showing that the laptop is still on, but not being used. I shutdown the laptop physically, by keep pressing the start/stop button on the laptop, till it shuts down completely. (I have been telling my collegues that Linux is not a OS that needs to be shutdown at all - when my collegues tease me about this shutdown problem - of course most of them uses XP / Vista). hope this may be a solution to you, s.sivakumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc