Forest, if you still have this problem, try this:
- boot from a LiveCD
- mount the root partition, devfs, procfs and sysfs
- chroot into your system
- do an aptitude full-upgrade

That fixed it for me (here's the blog post I wrote about it:
http://azitech.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/gave-up-waiting-for-root-device/)

Let me know how it went
Good luck

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