Beige G3 tower 10.0 and 10.1 Alpa2 installer fails to boot

I cannot see to get BootX 1.2.2 to boot the Kernel that comes with either the 10.0 or 10.1 Alpha2 install CDs. I copy the file from suseboot, use gzip up uncompress it. Point BootX at it. The kernel starts to load and then the screen turns strange yellow/black olours and hangs forever. It does not matter if I use textmode=1 or video=atyfb:vmode:17. I have YellowDog 4 installed and it boots just fine. I have tried with both the onboard video card and the add on twin turbo video card. Ideas? Has anyone used bootX to boot the kernel from the CD? Thanks, -Joseph-