In message <8764tkq5op.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>
>"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
>>>Ja'far Railton <ibn.richard@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> I am trying to get a Thinkpad R30 going running 2.0_STABLE from
>>>> known-good iso CD. I have a problem on boot when it gets to "agp0 at
>>>> pchb0" - it hangs. I googled to find that back in 2002-3 this was a
>>>> problem. One solution back then was to boot from floppy because floppy
>>>> kernel doesn't have AGP. Does anyone have any other advice?
>>>
>>>Just build a custom kernel without agp and boot it?
>>
>> Is it possible to boot alternate kernels?
>
>Yes, though you do need a machine to compile the alternate kernel
>on. Luckily, you can do that on a very wide variety of operating
>systems these days. You do have to learn how to build alternative
>install kernels/images, though.

As I noted, there are six install kernels on the CD.  Can one of them 
be booted?

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb