diff --git a/en-US/kernel/build-custom-kernel.adoc b/en-US/kernel/build-custom-kernel.adoc
index cd9ef31..075f4d8 100644
--- a/en-US/kernel/build-custom-kernel.adoc
+++ b/en-US/kernel/build-custom-kernel.adoc
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ cd kernel
 sudo dnf builddep kernel.spec
 ----
 
+If you want to use `make xconfig`, you'll need some additional packages:
+
+[source,bash]
+----
+sudo dnf install qt3-devel libXi-devel gcc-c++
+----
+
 Make sure you add the user doing the build to `/etc/pesign/users` and run the
 authorize user script:
 
@@ -205,13 +212,13 @@ look at the `Configuration targets` for the full list, but `make menuconfig`
 is a good place to start. You can also just edit the `.config` file directly.
 
 [NOTE]
-====
-If you plan to run `make xconfig`:
 
-[source,bash]
-----
-sudo dnf install qt3-devel libXi-devel gcc-c++
-----
+====
+
+One configuration option you may want to set is CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS, which
+compresses the modules (with gzip by default) when installing them. Without
+this setting, the modules can be very large.
+
 ====
 
 === Building the kernel
diff --git a/en-US/kernel/troubleshooting.adoc b/en-US/kernel/troubleshooting.adoc
index 680eff7..5980a58 100644
--- a/en-US/kernel/troubleshooting.adoc
+++ b/en-US/kernel/troubleshooting.adoc
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ boot process, there may or may not be any output. Some good first steps are:
 * Add `initcall_debug` parameter, which traces the initcalls as they are
   executed.
 
-* If you get no output at all from the kernel, sometimes booting with
-  `earlyprintk=vga` can sometimes yield something of interest.
+* If you get no output at all from the kernel, booting with `earlyprintk=vga`
+  can sometimes yield something of interest.
 
 
 == Hangs and freezes
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ version. The first version you find that doesn't work will be the initial "bad"
 version.
 
 . Install the <<build-custom-kernel.adoc#get-the-dependencies,dependencies>>
-required to build the kernel
+required to build the kernel.
 
 . Next, <<build-custom-kernel.adoc#getting-the-sources,get the source code>>.
 
@@ -78,7 +78,13 @@ between major versions (e.g. `v4.16` and `v4.15`) new configuration options
 will be added and removed as you bisect. It's _usually_ safe to select the
 default.]
 
-. Start a new `git-bisect` with `git bisect start <bad> <good>`.
+. Start a new `git-bisect` with `git bisect start`.
+
+. Mark the newest version that works as "good" with `git bisect good <tag>`.
+For example: `git bisect good v4.16.8`.
+
+. Mark the first version that does not work as "bad" with `git bisect bad
+<tag>`.  For example: `git bisect bad v4.17`.
 
 . <<build-custom-kernel.adoc#building-the-kernel,Build the kernel>>. Sometimes
 commits cannot be built. If this happens, skip the commit with `git bisect
@@ -86,12 +92,10 @@ skip`.
 
 . <<build-custom-kernel.adoc#installing-the-kernel,Install the kernel>>.
 
-. Reboot into the new kernel and test to see if the it works.
+. Reboot into the new kernel and test to see if it works.
 
 . If the new kernel works, mark it as good with `git bisect good`. Otherwise,
 mark it as bad with `git bisect bad`.
 
-. Check out the next commit to test by running `git bisect next`.
-
 . Repeat the previous five steps until you've found the commit that introduced
 the problem.