There are two bits of lossage biting macppc hard at the moment:

1) something changed recently and now usb keyboards don't work anymore. 
I've encountered the problem H-C Becker described of the keyboard doing
nothing. a 1.4B kernel was fine.

2) The new firmware (new iMac and B&W G3) will only boot from a
filesystem, not from the "partition 0" trick used by bootxx. :-(

For the latter, I'll try to make mac68k's mac partition reader work. :-)

Take care,

Bill