Ok, so I installed over the net that daily snapshot.  I did notice
that it seemed to install the ip2x kernel, though...

On boot:
> boot
45600+1376 entry: 0x80002000

NetBSD/sgimips 4.0_BETA2 Bootstrap, Revision 1.2
(builds@wb33, Sun May 27 14:58:20 PDT 2007)

devopen: scsi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(0) type scsi file netbsd
3414704+195580 [118160+105676]=0x3a84d4
[ Kernel symbol table missing! ]
panic: can't handle primary cache on impl 0xe

Exception: <vector=Normal>
Status register: 0x20000002<CU1,IPL=8,MODE=KERNEL>
Cause register: 0x8024<CE=0,IP8,EXC=BREAK>
Exception PC: 0x882d5c80, Exception RA: 0x8825634c
Breakpoint exception at address 0xc004a880
  Saved user regs in hex (&gpda 0x810617b8, &_regs 0x810619b8):
  arg: 81070000 98a 0 1
  tmp: 81070000 100 883d0000 883a0000 1400 10000 8 883d0000
  sve: 81070000 0 0 0 0 0 0 80ee80d5
  t8 81070000 t9 0 at 0 v0 0 v1 0 k1 1
  gp 81070000 fp 0 sp 0 ra 0

PANIC: Unexpected exception

Should I try to force it to get a different kernel set?

S.