lsinitrd does not understand xz-compressed initrd with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Issue

  • lsinitrd does not understand xz-compressed initial ram image

    # lsinitrd initrd.img 
    initrd.img:
    ========================================================================
    
    gzip: initrd.img: not in gzip format
    ========================================================================
    
    gzip: initrd.img: not in gzip format
    cpio: premature end of archive
    ========================================================================
    

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

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