>Is there any possibility that I could somehow boot the kernel off of the
>floppy drive and have it use my root partition (/dev/wd0a) like in
>Linux/LILO where you go:

0 > boot fd:0 -a 
>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
...
Boot: ata0/ata-disk@0  
1170840+163484 [93+57744+46224]=0x15f518
 start=0x100000
...
(boot from hard disk)

or

0 > boot fd:0 -a 
>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
...
Boot: -a
...

boot device: <unknown>
root device: wd0
...

(boot from floppy and chroot to wd0a)