RHEL 4 32 bit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8)

[~]# uname -a
Linux hpfrcq57.fra.hp.com 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 16 17:17:21 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[~]# uname -r
2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp

[~]# ls /boot/*2.6.9-42.0.10*
/boot/config-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL      /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp.img  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL
/boot/config-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp   /boot/System.map-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL     /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp
/boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL.img  /boot/System.map-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp

[~]# ls -l /boot/vm*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1473752 Feb 24  2006 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1436145 Feb 24  2006 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1504567 Feb 16  2007 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1444674 Feb 16  2007 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1504407 Aug 17  2006 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1444562 Aug 18  2006 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1504432 Sep 25  2006 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1444580 Sep 25  2006 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1504512 Jan 23  2007 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1444756 Jan 23  2007 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1511605 Aug 23  2007 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1451007 Aug 23  2007 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.0.6.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1433988 Jan  6  2005 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1400620 Jan  6  2005 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1533488 Aug 31  2009 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.11.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1472644 Aug 31  2009 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.11.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1536703 May 30  2010 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1472692 May 30  2010 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.26.ELsmp

[~]# ls /boot/*2.6.9-42.0.10* | xargs file
/boot/config-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL:        ASCII English text
/boot/config-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp:     ASCII English text
/boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL.img:    gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression
/boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp.img: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression
/boot/System.map-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL:    ASCII text
/boot/System.map-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp: ASCII text
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL:       x86 boot sector
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp:    x86 boot sector

Tests sur le initrd

[boot]# gzip -dc initrd-`uname -r`.img | strings | grep -E "EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device." 
[boot]# gzip -dc initrd-`uname -r`.img | strings | grep -E "<3>EXT3-fs: blocksize too small for journal device."
<3>EXT3-fs: blocksize too small for journal device.
[boot]# gzip -dc initrd-`uname -r`.img | strings | grep -E "<3>cramfs: wrong magic"
[boot]# gzip -dc initrd-`uname -r`.img | strings | grep -E "<6>checking if image is initramfs...|<6>Unpacking initramfs...|<6>Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs"

Tests sur le vmlinuz

[boot]# cat vmlinuz-`uname -r` | strings | grep -E "EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device."
[boot]# cat vmlinuz-`uname -r` | strings | grep -E "<3>EXT3-fs: blocksize too small for journal device."
[boot]# cat vmlinuz-`uname -r` | strings | grep -E "<3>cramfs: wrong magic"
[boot]# cat vmlinuz-`uname -r` | strings | grep -E "<6>checking if image is initramfs...|<6>Unpacking initramfs...|<6>Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs"