[johnnym]

A bus error usually means a stack alignment or memory issue.

Ok, good to know. But the hardware should be OK, as this does not happen with the 7.1 kernel and a 7.1 FS (same for 7.0). It could be that the memory is organized differently between 7.1 and 7.2 and maybe some broken SIMMs are touched then. I'll check them with the IDE, to be sure.

But the strange thing is, that in single user mode everything seems to work properly. When going directly to multi-user during boot-up the bus errors "become" segfaults but the same binaries bomb IIRC. I have logs of the issue, but not sure if posting them here would do any good now.

I don't run OpenBSD, but I like seeing someone carry on the legacy.

Thanks, though not sure I'm good enough to keep this going, but I'll at least try.    And I simply couldn't let this good stuff sink into oblivion.

Any reason why you don't like NetBSD on your systems, by chance?

Oh, I do, I for example run NetBSD on my R3K Indigo from Dexter1, though this only runs with the help of unmerged code from Japan . But OpenBSD actually supports every SGI machine I have (except for the R3K Indigo), whereas NetBSD only supports or supported the Indy and the O2 (plus R3K Indigo) of my machines. So my preferred free OS on SGI is OpenBSD. OpenBSD (4.9 to be exact) was also the first OS I ran on my Octane2 years ago, even before trying to use IRIX on it.