>>> On the plus side, I've noticed that when booted into OS X on my G4,
>>> it will see the MSDOS MBR partition on the disk that contains my
>>> OpenBSD stuff(which I'm trying to preserve but migrate to NetBSD).
>>> It won't see the FFS stuff, at least not by default.
>> Hmm, OSX and NetBSD seem to agree about UFS partitions, but as far as
>> I can tell OF doesn't know UFS so I have to load ofwboot.xcf from a
>> HFS+ filesystem which NetBSD can't read...
>
> Though NetBSD doesn't support HFS directly there is
> /pkgsrc/sysutils/hfsutils/
>
> which should allow to format a small hfs partition and place ofwboot on
> it. For dayly usage the commands are probably not convinient.
>
> Rudi

tho it (IIRC) doesn't support HFS+ yet, it's enough to make that thing 
boot ;)

regards,

timo