Hi,
I noticed a few things in the list of what you did, after executing make oldconfig, I believe you need "make bzImage modules" which will
make bzImage etc.. is for kernel 2.4 In 2.6 it's a bit different:
Here are my steps after installing the kernel source:
# make menuconfig # make # sudo make modules_install install
No need to copy anything. Even grub is updated nicely.
Cheers, Hannes.