Comment 9 for bug 249964

I am in the same boat, and in the process of "upgrading" a gentoo system to Ubuntu LTS, and this is a show stopper. Is there a way to install a patched kernel on a system that won't even boot (but has an 8.04 installation on it)? Is there any version of Ubuntu that will run on this setup? Is there anything that could be passed in the boot process to get into the system?