Comment 27 for bug 153096

You should try it again. Here is good howto...
http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu

And here is cat of my bash history, this will make work for you more easy.

 sudo apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2
 wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2
 wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.24-rc4.bz2
 bzip2 -cd linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
 cd linux-2.6.23
 bzip2 -cd ../patch-2.6.24-rc4.bz2 | patch -p1
 cat /home/lex/Desktop/sata_sil-irq-fix.patch | patch -p1
 make menuconfig ( or copy attached config file to your linux-2.6.23 folder and rename this file to .config !!! point is important !!! )
 make-kpkg clean
 fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-patched kernel_image kernel_headers
 cd ..
 sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-rc4-patched_2.6.24-rc4-patched-10.00.Custom_i386.deb