diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 2425ae63e..59f6d0403 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added some notes regarding failed
+tests to glibc and dejagnu.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Glibc - Added commands to both chapter 5 and 6 to include minimum locales necessary for checks.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed zlib's
diff --git a/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml b/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml
index c1794e6ac..4a22085f9 100644
--- a/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,11 @@
 make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>This completes the testing tools. We can now rebuild GCC and Binutils
-to link them against the new Glibc, and test them properly.</para>
+to link them against the new Glibc, and test them properly. One thing to note,
+however, is that these test suites are highly dependent on the features
+supported by your host distribution.  Most notably, a host distribution which 
+does not properly support the devpts filesystem will cause most of these tests
+to fail.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
diff --git a/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml
index b76027bc8..61dc8bb83 100644
--- a/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ would require you to regenerate the binary files.</para>
 make check
 make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
+<para>The glibc make check process is highly dependent on certain functions
+of your host operating system.  The most common is a host that fails to mount
+a tmpfs filesystem at /dev/shm, which may cause glibc tests to fail.</para>
+
 <para>The locales (used by Glibc to make your Linux system respond in a
 different language) weren't installed when you ran the previous command,
 so we have to do that ourselves now:</para>