Bug 858108

Summary:	how to open the initrd.img file of RHEL7.0
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	ZHANG <zhangliang1417>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Nobody <nobody>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.3	CC:	notting
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Last Closed:	2012-09-25 05:30:14 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description ZHANG 2012-09-18 01:44:49 UTC

Description of problem:
For RHEL6.* 
We used to use command: "lzma -dc initrd.img > *" to unzip the initrd.img
But for RHEL7.0, we meet error


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL7.0

How reproducible:
lzma -dc initrd.img >* to open the RHEL7.0

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add the DVD to a linux OS
2. open the DVD
3. lzma -dc initrd.img >*
  
Actual results:
error

Expected results:
the initrd.img can be opened just as RHEL6.*

Additional info:
NONE

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2012-09-25 05:30:14 UTC

initrd.img is an xz-compressed cpio archive. This can be easily discovered with 'file initrd.img.'

Closing as NOTABUG as this is quite literally not a bug.