@nubechecorre
This was exactly the same setup I had on my classic (until I broke off a small resistor thingee on the VooDoo and it stopped working) PPC.
I do remember doing quite a few things to get this sort of thing fixed but I can't remember the steps I took.
It did involve booting with no startup and mucking around with stuff. I did get to edit it however. I would have thought with an 030 you'd be sweet but I know on the 060 at times you need to disable the instruction cache otherwise software does freeze.
Has he attached the board etc?
I really don't know what to say, infact why did I reply
heh, good luck!