Hi,

I concur with that.  I've just got it working in the same manner.  Many 
thanks for doing all the hard investigative work for me!!!

At last.... I have newfs'd my linuxppc partitions.

Cheers,

Simon.

>   As of 10 minutes ago I have succesfully booted 1.4.1 on my Beige G3
>DT/233 w/96 MB RAM. You need to find Apple's System Disk utility program
>from their ftp site for booting MacOS X, run the application and set your
>boot device to ide1/disk@0:0 for the usually cdrom bus, or ide/disk@0:0 for
>the main HD bus. Your boot file is netbsd. Close the advanced settings
>window and click save, then you can quit the program and reboot into OF.
>Once there, double check that you have:
>
>auto-boot? your preference
>use-nvramrc? true
>load-base 600000
>boot-device ide/disk@0:0
>boot-file netbsd and that there is about a page and a half of code under
>nvramrc. (you should see it when you type printenv)
>
>    Now you need to type bye and wait for the grey screen to come up, then
>reboot with ctl-cmd-reset and go back into OF, this time typing boot 
>should have you up and running :)