it's a bug in openfirmware on oldworld, everybody has this problem booting from floppies.
Much in the same way you need a macos partition and bootx to install any recent ppc distro onto a oldworld mac with the exception of mac sponsored, non free on their release cd's.
If everyone has this problem using floppies, why use floppies or why are there floppies and no documentation on the media you have or website of the distro which is still unnamed making what you call a firmware problem and what I call a inherent lacking in the oldworld macs when it comes to booting anything but the macos. I guess its a rom problem which is not open-anything.
I dont know how the hdd is partitioned or what remains of the mac partition table, the distro your trying to install, how you can install and reboot from cold without a small macos partition, or which of the bootloaders your using with the various commands which may or not help.
For all I know you may just need a decent version of HDsetup or whatever to set your partition table and the installer will go on like it should, or atleast format the partitions.
In other words, good luck.
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