>>  - secondly rc processing starts, but stops prematurely. I did some
>>    experiments and the result is that with no screen output the system
>>    ends up in single-user mode and I can actually halt or reboot the
>>    system using the keyboard. Booting the older kernel still works, so
>>    the difference is with the kernel.
>
> If I'm patient, xdm actually starts, so at least I can log in...  so
> /etc/rc isn't bombing out in the middle for me.  (no /etc/rc.d for me...
> at least not yet.)

Me, too.  /etc/rc.d/ is a showstopper of 1.5 release, at least for
NetBSD/pmax.  I've heard that NetBSD/cobalt spends only 10+ seconds
before login: prompt (it has RM5230 processor) on NFS root directory,
though.

Fork/exec performance _must be_ improved.

Tohru Nishimura