How can I examine and extract the contents of my ramdisk (initrd/initramfs) file under Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Applicable to:  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 & 6.  (RHEL 4, 5 & 6.)
For RHEL 7 & 8, please view How to extract/unpack/uncompress the contents of the initramfs boot image?

To examine the contents of an initial ramdisk file:

  1. Determine the initial ram disk image that you wish to...

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