[lug] problem compiling Ubuntu kernel

[bgiles]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> The same way you compile a kernel on it.  Boot something else and chroot into your drive.
>
> I don't know how close the running kernel has to be to the one you want an initramfs for, they might 
> have to be the same architecture.
>
> It's a pity the upgrade didn't leave your old kernel and initramfs around.
>
> Dave
>   
I've figured out the biggest problem - the grub loader is insisting that 
the root partition is /dev/hda3 (which it was under older kernels), but 
the new kernel insists it's /dev/sda3.  Every update has been pointing 
the new kernel to the wrong place.  It can't be pulling the information 
from /etc/fstab or the rescue disc since both say it's /dev/sda3.

A related issue is the 'rescue' partition was the old swap location, 
/dev/hda2, instead of the new swap location, /dev/sda2.

The third problem is that the startup process isn't finding the lvm 
device so I can manually tweak the menu.lst file to the system will 
reboot (until the next time I update the kernel) but something is still 
not quite right.  I can mount the partitions manually once I go into 
maintenance mode so it's not a case of a missing kernel module.

Bear