initrd.img (alert the press! end-user-type compiles own kernel!)

[James Lindenschmidt <jwl@maine.rr.com>]

Greetings. Yet another not-newbie, not-guru end-user-type 
question here.

I'm still having trouble compiling the kernel. I scrapped 
the previous attempt using a kernel from kernel.org and got 
the source directly from debian.

The kernel compiled OK, but when I updated LILO and ran it, 
I got the following error message:

Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or directory

I looked, and /initrd.img is a symlink pointing to 
/boot/initrd.img . Unfortunately, there is no 
/boot/initrd.img. 

It's possible that I accidentally deleted this file. How 
should I replace it? Where can I find it? Isn't it 
generated during the make-kpkg kernel_image?

Thanks for any help for this confused end-user who still 
prefers debian to windows . . .
-- 
James Lindenschmidt
JWL@maine.rr.com