2.8BSD on an 11/23 with rk05s info please

[Jerry J. Deroo]

I am trying to bring up 2.8BSD on an 11/23, and not having much luck...
once the boot program gets running, and it asks for a file spec to load,
it can not find the root directory inode....however, the first 16 inodes
are in the correct buffer, and the inode itself is there, it just does
not get copied from buf.i_buf to buf.i_ino (or whatever)

What is even more strange is that the exact same rk pack will boot on an
11/45.....

Can anyone make any suggestions?
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