I am pretty sure any macs with USB (except the bondi G3) and that includes the Lombard don't have the issues with OS X on bigger than 6GB Drives. Anything wallstreet/beige G3 and the like required to the partition to be less than 8GB Drives.

Oh, and that only applies to the internal IDE controller. SCSI, PCI SATA, PCI SCSI or PCI IDE cards need not apply to this theory.

I have installed OS X on a Beige G3 (overclocked to 433Mhz) on a SATA 80GB HDD on partitions over then 8 GB limit with no issue. It's just a limit of the internal IDE chipset that they used.

What surprises me is that this didn't apply to the Lombard, as I would have thought since it was a Beige G3 shoe-horned into a PowerBook case, same chipset, etc... with a NewWorld ROM, and USB tacked onto the USB bus.

Other than that, it was identical to the beige in almost every other way in design. (Hence the ATA-16MB/s IDE Bus as well)

Pismo was a complete overhaul of the system and was a completely new-world system. New chipset, AGP graphics, new FSB, USB built into the chipset, etc... It was a completely exempt from the exceptions the beige G3 series had to deal with with OS X.

So the Pismo was not included, but I seem to recall installing OS X onto my lombard with a 30GB HDD easily, no partitioning needed