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Waiting for root file system
and now the solution:
my root file system is on hda1, which works fine for the 2.6.18 kernel, but since the 2.6.2x kernels it seems NOT to use hdX anymore, it's sdX instead...which is pretty weird because "sd" is usually for SATA or USB-devices, NOT for ATA ones.
so the trick was to open /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the path for the "kernel" entry from /hda1 to /sda1
this problem maybe affects other Debian-based distros too...