I mixed up my notes during typing, and the firewire drive failure 
should have been this
and the following should have been for the ofwboot failure... Sorry

a -current ofwboot.xcf fails with the following results on my dual 1GHz 
powermac.


loading XCOFF
tsize=d990 dsize=2b0 bsize=25b8 adler32=ffc7d851

sections
.text 00640000 00640000 0000d990 00000000
.data 0064e000 0064e000 000002b0 0000da70
.bss 0064e2b0 0064e2b0 000025b8 00000000
loading .text, done..
loading .data, done..
loading .bss, done..
 >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
 >> /root@G4mp, Tue Jun 3 20:51:06 EDT 2003)

DEFAULT CATCH!, code=300 at %SRR0:00000000 %SRR1:00083030

Then the system is HUNG.


Hope this leads the way to troubleshooting.

Joseph Sarkes
jsarkes@tiac.net