I've recompiled and installed kernels before and haven't had this problem. I downloaded the kernel source and headers debs for 2.2.14, rebuilt and recompiled the kernel source without any errors, then did a make dep. Next, found the *Custom* kernel in /usr/src, and tried to install it with make-kpkg kernel_image. It came back with "Internal Error: (boot) is not a directory" and stopped.
I'm stuck. Any idea where I went astray? thanks, Michael Heyes still using 2.2.13