In message <68ac59cd88bbdd5ac394c3013ce52995@earthlink.net>, Michael writes:
>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 :)

Ah-HAH!  That, I think, is what I was confused by; the distinction between
ofwboot and Open Firmware itself.

Okay, that makes everything better.  Except that my kernel spins idly
forever saying it can't find a root filesystem on wd0, but that's probably
just me screwing up the install.  :)

-s