On a G3 when I try to compile my own ppc kernel...the make zImage command generates a vmlinux file that ends up between 30-45MB in size....From personal testing that vmlinux file with an initrd generated by the mkinitrd command will boot and run linux just fine on my machine...but make zImage normally should result in a vmlinux file and a compressed vmlinuz file...It never makes the vmlinuz file at all. If I try to use the normal make bzImage command instead of just make zImage -- then I get an error which states: "no rule to make bzImage" -- I understand that on a 64bit G5 that make bzImage works just like it does on an x86 compile...

From reading some debian kernel info and contrasting

it with redhat-style kernel compile info -- I understand that ppc debian has a mkvmlinuz command that will take uncompressed vmlinux file and a ramdisk or initrd and make a working vmlinuz file with the proper pivot point in it.

Is there a mkvmlinuz command or equivalent for Fedora PPC?

Is there some special command I need to do on a G3 before I do the "make zImage" to get a working vmlinuz from a working vmlinux?

I normally use a copy of a config file from a working fedora kernel... then edit it to my needs...then copy to .config in /usr/src/linux and do make oldconfig...make modules...make modules_install...make zImage in that order...

Thanks- James Rooker