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Why hasn't anyone ported (Open)Genera to modern architectures? What are the barriers?

Here's the least-hairy part of the disk drivers in the LMI source code: http://code.google.com/p/jrm-code-project/source/browse/trun... I haven't looked at any Genera source code, but I suspect it is similarly hairy. It's a lot of work.

Outch..are there any other Lisp OSes? I remember finding a list sometime ago but none of them showed any promise AFAIK.

Hairy, especially because most of us haven't done systems programming like that, but how cool is it to see "(without-interrupts ..."??

That's what OpenGenera is. Originally it ran on the Alpha. Brad Parker ported it to AMD64.