make-kpkg and 2.4.16

[Adam Shand <adam@personaltelco.net>]

hey.

i've never tried to run make-kpkg on non-debian'ized kernel source before
(ie. normally i download kernel-source-2.x.x).

so i downloaded the source, cd'd into it and ran:

 make-kpkg --initrd --revision=2:adam.1.0 kernel-image

and i get a package that looks and installs fine, but it won't boot.  i
don't have the exact error because i'm compiling the kernel again, but
it's something along the lines of "root:  not found" or something that
makes me think that i've made a typo in my menu.lst but i haven't, it's
all automatically generated by update-grub and is working fine for all my
other kernels.

is there somethign particular about building a debian kernel from scratch
instead of from debian'ized source?

is there somethign weird about 2.4.16?

or did i just fat finger something in my kernel config and not want to
admit it ...

thanks,
adam.