piggy broken in 2.5.24 build

[sean darcy]

At the end of make bzImage I get:

> make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/kernel/linux-2.5.24/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
> tmppiggy=_tmp_$$piggy; \
> rm -f $tmppiggy $tmppiggy.gz $tmppiggy.lnk; \
> objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S /opt/kernel/linux-2.5.24/vmlinux $tmppiggy; \
> gzip -f -9 < $tmppiggy > $tmppiggy.gz; \
> echo "SECTIONS { .data : { input_len = .; LONG(input_data_end - input_data) input_data = .; *(.data) input_data_end = .; }}" > $tmppiggy.lnk; \
> ld -m elf_i386 -r -o piggy.o -b binary $tmppiggy.gz -b elf32-i386 -T $tmppiggy.lnk; \
> rm -f $tmppiggy $tmppiggy.gz $tmppiggy.lnk
> /bin/sh: _tmp_18313piggy: No such file or directory
> ld: cannot open _tmp_18313piggy.gz: No such file or directory
> gcc -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__KERNEL__ -I/opt/kernel/linux-2.5.24/include -traditional -c head.S
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/opt/kernel/linux-2.5.24/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=misc -c misc.c
> ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x100000 -e startup_32 -o bvmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
> ld: cannot open piggy.o: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [bvmlinux] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/kernel/linux-2.5.24/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
> make[1]: *** [compressed/bvmlinux] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/kernel/linux-2.5.24/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

I tried zImage, with the same result.

Can I boot with just vmlinux?

jay