I recently acquired an IPC (headless, 32M) for use as a porting
base for NetBSD, desiring to stretch my brain a little.

Installing 1.2 was quite painless, however anything later is
a total no-goer; we get to the point where init/whatever is
launched/about to be launched, and things appear to stop dead.

FWIW, when I was looking at OpenBSD (their 2.0 release), it
showed similar symptoms, but rather than stopping dead was
just running _very_slowly_.  It is possible that the post-1.2
snapshots I've tried are doing this too.

I'd like to move to something reasonably -current in order
to be able to build reasonably -current kernels for other
architectures.  (In particular the Mips and m68k trees have
improved considerably since 1.2, and these are the major
areas of interest.)

So:
 - is anyone running -current on an IPC?
 - has anyone seen these symptoms?
 - was there any change in the console after 1.2 (flow control,
   etc?  I'm using a full mini-8 <-> D25 cable and a full-flow
   gender-bender to a VT320 with hardware flow control disabled
   'RD-232, Data Leads Only' if that's at all relevant.  Again,
   1.2 works A-OK with this config.)

Thanks.
--
Mike Smith  *BSD hack  Unix hardware collector
The question "why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical"
invites the trivial response "because we define as fundamental those
laws which are mathematical".  Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_