SLES 11 SP1 64bit

~ # uname -a
Linux hpfrcq56 2.6.32.12-0.7-default #1 SMP 2010-05-20 11:14:20 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~ # uname -r
2.6.32.12-0.7-default

/boot # ls /boot/*2.6.32.12-0.7*
/boot/System.map-2.6.32.12-0.7-default      /boot/symtypes-2.6.32.12-0.7-default.gz
/boot/config-2.6.32.12-0.7-default          /boot/symvers-2.6.32.12-0.7-default.gz
/boot/initrd-2.6.32.12-0.7-default          /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32.12-0.7-default.gz
/boot/initrd-2.6.32.12-0.7-default-kdump    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-0.7-default
/boot/symsets-2.6.32.12-0.7-default.tar.gz

~ # ls -l /boot/vm*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3774506 May 20  2010 /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32.12-0.7-default.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      29 Nov 26 13:08 /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-0.7-default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3231872 May 20  2010 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-0.7-default

~ # ls /boot/*2.6.32.12-0.7* | xargs file           
/boot/System.map-2.6.32.12-0.7-default:     ASCII text
/boot/config-2.6.32.12-0.7-default:         ASCII English text
/boot/initrd-2.6.32.12-0.7-default:         gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Mon Nov 26 13:38:59 2012, max compression
/boot/initrd-2.6.32.12-0.7-default-kdump:   gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Mon Nov 26 15:38:39 2012, max compression
 ...
/boot/vmlinux-2.6.32.12-0.7-default.gz:     gzip compressed data, was "vmlinux-2.6.32.12-0.7-default", from Unix, last modified: Thu May 20 13:07:07 2010, max compression
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-0.7-default:        Linux/x86 Kernel, Setup Version 0x20a, bzImage, Version 2.6.32.12, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x809, swap_dev 0x3, Normal VGA

Tests sur le initrd

/boot # gzip -dc initrd-`uname -r` | strings | grep -E "EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device." 
/boot # gzip -dc initrd-`uname -r` | 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` | strings | grep -E "<3>cramfs: wrong magic"
/boot # gzip -dc initrd-`uname -r` | 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"

Tests sur le vmlinux.gz

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