I have the cd to be able to boot but it doesn't recognize the hard drive.
This next information may help someone recognize some of my problems.
NetBSD has trouble recognizing individual partitions. OpenBSD reads the disk as being in terabytes if the whole disk isn't used. Debian seems to be the only working system. I have read somewhere that making an hfs filesystem can be recognized by freebsd; yet, again, this poses a problem. The mac-fdsik does not allow such an option and the OpenBSD fdisk isn't allowing a freebsd a5 type to stay on the disk.
Openfirmware boot arguments
The bootloader comes up. See above for results and non results.
Apologies for talking in circles, my thought process is kind of jumbled.