interrupted dpkg can't be fixed because of filesystem location issue?

[oncozerov]

Somehow (I don't know for sure) when I was installing GIMP & Inkscape (last time I install two prgrams at the same time) via apt-get something went wrong and I got a message reading something-swap(space-I-think)-something (I won't lie, I was in a hurry so I just hit enter without reading throughly, now when I try to make an apt-get upgrade I get this:

debian:/home/oncozerov# apt-get upgrade
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

Obviously I ran dpkg and this is what I get:

debian:/home/oncozerov# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92o) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 (2.6.26-13) ...
Running depmod.
Running mkinitramfs-kpkg.
mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
mkinitramfs: missing sdb root /dev/sdb1 /sys entry
mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most
mkinitramfs: Error please report the bug
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Now, I KNOW (sure everybody says the same thing) that the problem is the sdb/sdb1 part (which I have marked in red) because originally my machine didn't boot unless I hit 'e' during GRUB to alter the path (that's permanently modified now) otherwise I got a couldn't mount filesystem, my filesystem is in sda (a fact) but I think because I installed from an USB stick and I just have a few weeks playing with linux (I have Debian Lenny installed by the way) I probably did something wrong during the installation so I got that filesystem problem, I'm convinced that issue is totally related to this dpkg error and all I wish for is a pointer as of where is what I' suppoused to modify so that my machine will forever forget that sdb inexistant location.
I hope this goes here, and yes, I've tried reading about dpkg, and initramfs, mkinitramfs, pendriving linux, but still I can't find aomething that'll get my in the right direction.
I almost forgot, MODULES is already set to 'most'.
That's it, thank you.

[iwanabeguru]

So you have installed debian on a pendrive.

Do you use the same interface(the same hole ) when you are booting from the pendrive?
When linux booting the udev daemon dynamically build the hardware nodes.
One your pendrive is identifyed as sdb , other time as sda.

Use the same hole. Or use uuid for disks in /etc/fstab.