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Hello,

> The Mini has a fairly recent version of Open Firmware.  My 
> understanding
> is that I should be able to access an Apple UFS filesytem from Open 
> Firmware.
> In practice, however, it seems I can't.  I've made such a partition, 
> but
>
> dir hd:N,\
>
> works for only the N which correspond to HFS+ partitions.
>
> I can probably do it with HFS+... But if I do that, then I have no 
> obvious
> way to copy new kernels in.  ?

I have ofwboot.xcf on a HFS+ partition (the first one) and the netbsd 
kernel on an UFS one on my iBook G4 - the OF boot command is
boot hd:owfboot.xcf hd:7/netbsd
where 7 is the partition number. Works fine since ofwboot.xcf can read 
UFS filesystems :)

have fun
Michael
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