NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini and making the kernel power failure proof

For some reason the mini goes berserk when trying to boot from a kernel on a NetBSD native partition, but works fine from an HFS+ one. There’s a couple ways of skinning that cat, but for many of you this means you’ll need not only the NetBSD installer CD, but also a bootable copy of Mac OS X either on disc (i.e., an installer) or a bootable external drive, and some means of copying files. Before the mini will boot NetBSD, we must copy the kernel and the bootloader to the HFS+ partition.

Source: tenfourfox.blogspot.com