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vmlinuz provided in RHEL 9.5 DVD ISO is of PE32+ executable format instead of gzip compressed data

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      What were you trying to do that didn't work?

      A user is installing RHEL 9.5 aarch64 over PXE using extracted DVD ISO.

      What is the impact of this issue to you?

      The installation gets hung after download of vmlinuz files from globalpxe and extracting the kernel image from the vmlinuz

       practicevm{64}> ls -lh .
      total 72K
      drwxr-xr-x 4 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Oct  9 01:22 AppStream
      drwxr-xr-x 4 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Oct  9 01:22 BaseOS
      rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 2.0K Oct  7 08:25 boot.catalog
      drwxrwxr-x 3 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Oct  7 08:25 EFI
      drwxrwsr-x 3 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Jan 10 02:21 errata
      rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 8.0K Oct  9 01:07 EULA
      rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 1.5K Oct  9 01:33 extra_files.json
      rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm  18K Oct  9 01:07 GPL
      drwxrwxr-x 3 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Jan 22 22:26 images
      rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm  103 Oct  9 01:22 media.repo
      rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 1.7K Oct  9 01:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-beta
      rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 3.6K Oct  9 01:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
      drwxrwsr-x 3 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Jan 10 02:21 Security
      practicevm{65}> cd images/
      practicevm{66}> ls -lh .
      total 872M
      -rwxrwxr-x 1 kramatej linuxadm 7.2M Oct  7 08:31 efiboot.img
      -rwxrwxr-x 1 kramatej linuxadm 862M Oct  7 08:25 install.img
      drwxrwxr-x 2 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Jan 22 04:00 pxeboot
      practicevm{67}> cd pxeboot/
      practicevm{68}> ls -lh .
      total 140M
      rw-rr- 1 kramatej users 128M Jan 22 22:25 initrd.img
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 kramatej users  13M Jan 22 22:25 vmlinuz
      practicevm{69}>

      Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

      RHEL-9-5-0-BaseOS-aarch64  DVD ISO

      How reproducible is this bug?:

      100%

      Steps to reproduce

      1. Extract the contents for RHEL 9.5 aarch64 DVD ISO on a local path
      2.  Use PXE to install using the local path

      Expected results

      The installation should work without issues.

      Actual results

      The installation is hung as per the attached screenshot

              sdubewar Sagar Dubewar
              rhn-support-plawate Pranav Lawate
              Eliane Pereira
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