>  How well does your Xserve run 1.6.1?

No stability problem so far. I've been building a dozen of releases in a
row without any trouble. The IDE performance is a bit deceiving, but I'm
working with Manuel to fix that.
 
> :)INSTALL.
> :)It's not a problem of /etc/ttys: when running single-user that settigns
> :)are not used to choose the console speed. 
> Does it work fine (i.e. 57600) with GENERIC_MD?

Not tried, but GENERIC is okay wrt serial speed. Only INSTALL has the
speed change problem.
 
> I'm not sure about other situations (OF3 with UFS root and OF 1 and 2).  My
> impression is that there's a bootloader in the partition map which loads
> the CHRP file from HFS or UFS partitions.

This sounds to be the universal way of doing the thing: works will all
OF versions, and it can dual-boot MacOS X.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@netbsd.org