Well, got a bunch of good suggestions from people about trying to
get further with the Duo boot (Thx everyone!), to no avail. The latest test
was:

Apple Duo 230
Dock II (has FPU)
Apple TFB card, 14" monitor (21" internal disconnected), Black and White
Extensions off
Booting off a kernel from MacOS off an external IBM 2.5" 160MB HD.
18MB RAM.

The results are the same as in my previous post, it hangs right after:

Set _mac68k_vrsrc_cnt to 0x1.

Set _mac68k_vrsrc_vec to {0x800d 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 }.

slotid 0x116, spid 0x6370, onoff 13

 I'm going to try formatting one of my disks with AU/X partitions and such
and try booting off of that, does anyone have any knowledge as to wether
some drives are better than others? I have 2 160MB IBM 2.5" drives, a 250MB
Quantum, an 850MB Quantum, and a 250MB Maxtor, any of which can be backed
up and formatted for test purposes (preference in terms of size).
 Does anyone know what would be hanging it before it even starts the
kernel? Speaking of which, I did gunzip and tar xf the kernel, correct? Thx
for any help!
                                        -Rob H.