> I already have a grub based USB drive and I boot most
> of my live OSs from there. I thought I will add MilaX
> there. I downloaded the milax0.5.usb and mounted it
> in Linux using the RO UFS driver. It had the
> following structure:
> 
> # /bin/ls -R
> .:
> boot  boot.catalog  lost+found  usr.zlib
> 
> ./boot:
> grub  milax  platform
> 
> ./boot/grub:
> <grub blah>
> 
> ./boot/grub/bin:
> grub
> 
> ./boot/platform:
> i86pc
> 
> ./boot/platform/i86pc:
> kernel
> 
> ./boot/platform/i86pc/kernel:
> unix
> 
> I created a boot directory in the root of my 2nd
> partition (FAT32) of the USB drive. Put 'milax' in
> /boot/, 'cp -a' the platform folder in /boot/, copied
> usr.zlib to /, and added an entry in my existing
> menu.lst to boot with
> 
> title MilaX 0.5 (32 bit)
>         find --set-root /gentoo.igz
> kernel /boot//platform/i86pc/kernel/unix
>         module /boot/milax
> ds everything fine and boots but goes straight to
> maintenance mode. I login with alex/alex but most
> commands are not found. Most annoying being lack of
> 'more' or 'less'. Without these I can't see what went
> beyond the screen full output from other commands
> like prtconf.
> 
> Anybody has any idea why it doesn't boot properly?
> 
> What is the usr.zlib for? And what exactly is it?
> 
> PS: I would really appreciate it if someone could get
> rid of the beep on pc speaker for me or at least tell
> me a command which can do that. Its loud and annoying!

usr.zlib contains /usr directory, so you can't do something without it. 
To mount it, the boot archive looks for UFS partition on the USB drive.

::alhazred
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