Hello laptoppers

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?

TIA
Ja'far