My problem wasn't fixed in 2.6.20-12. I did note, however, that the problem fixed itself after adding the "sleep 10" line (mentioned in http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2236181&postcount=5) fixes the problem -- my system boots now.
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