Bug#456578: debian-installer: after first reboot, grub says: "unknown filesystem type" and then hangs

["Patrick Zanon" <patrick.zanon@gmail.com>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


I installed the system from the floppies version (200703..), and almost
everything was ok (except several disk space problems witch I solved
by moving all the
*.deb files into a 250GB disk and then creating the suitable symbolic
inks) until the first
reboot. At that time the system restarted but the grub halted with the
following error:

Grub.....
root (hd0,0)
  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
kernel 7boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-k7 root=/dev/hda1 ro

Error 17: cannot mount selected partition



The system is equipped with the following disks:
/dev/hda1 = Micro$oft 2000
/dev/hda2 = the /boot partition directory (ext3)

/dev/hdc = CDRW 400 - Philips: CD recorder
/dev/hdd1 = seagate barracuda disck mounted on /mnt/D (ext3)

/dev/sda1 = the / partition (ext3)
/dev/sda2 = the swap partition


Using the floppies I started a rescue session that helped me to see
how the /etc/fstab fiel is almost empty, and contains only the
following line:

#UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM


No partitions have been mounted, neither the swap one that I had
to activate using the "swap /dev/sda2" command.

Of course, the setup process did not restarted with the rescue session

The problem remembered me the Bug#445148 but there is no a fsck fail...

Thanks in advance
P.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)