can't boot after release upgrade 9.04->9.10

hello community

I made a release upgrade 9.04->9.10 the process went relatively smooth, switched to the latest paravirt kernel, rebooted and it dropped in recovery mode

One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted
(ESC for recovery shell)
/: waiting for /dev/xvda
/tmp: waiting for (null)
swap: waiting for /dev/xvdb
/mnt/bkup: waiting for /dev/xvdc

fsck is ok and the boot stop there waiting for mountall to complete… other people (on desktop) have the error bypassed after a while and the system boots, but here it doesn't.

I found a lot of people having the same bug same problem

and two related bugs in lanchpad

559582

459859

the suggested solution was to upgrade to initramfs-tools (>0.92bubuntu74) but it's available only for lucid it (brings a lot of dependency and mountall >2.14). I tried with mountall 1.02 but doesn't change anything. Tried the dpkg –configure -a but makes no effects/msg. Other suggested to change UID in fstab but I've none of them

So I wonder how people here managed to upgrade?

thanks for any advice I'm really stressed out this is a server in production