e-machines M6809 + sarge

["Brendon J. Colby" <bren@brendoncolby.com>]

Greetings,

I've been searching for a while trying to figure out this problem. I'm 
trying to get the AMD64 build of Sarge installed on my emachines m6809 
laptop. I can boot the AMD64 Sarge network install just fine and get 
through the inital installation, but when I reboot to finish the rest of 
the install, it hangs at the PCI hotplug section. It dumps out a bunch 
of APIC related errors I think (I'm at work, so I don't have the exact 
errors).

I know there have been multiple complaints about the APIC stuff causing 
problems and e-machines / Gateway refuses to offer a BIOS update. I 
can't find any of the un-authorized BIOS updates either (some people had 
luck updating to the m6811 bios). I've also tried giving the noapic boot 
options to no avail.

Has anyone gotten Sarge installed on this laptop?

Thanks.

Brendon Colby