diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 5d086ec81..c0708d292 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.39</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.4</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>groff-1.17.2</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>linux-2.4.9</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>linux-2.4.8</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>man-pages-1.39</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.7</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.81</para></listitem>
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
 
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>August 27th 2001 [markh]: After a discussion on #lfs,
+we've downgraded the book to linux-2.4.8 due to performance problems
+with 2.4.9.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>August 26th 2001 [markh]: Moved appendix c --&gt; appendix d and
 appendix b --&gt; appendix c in order to create room for the dependency
 information to go into appendix b.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/index.xml b/index.xml
index a82058b38..798d03fb8 100644
--- a/index.xml
+++ b/index.xml
@@ -625,9 +625,9 @@
 <!ENTITY ad-netkitbase SYSTEM "appendixd/netkitbase.xml">
 <!ENTITY ad-nettools SYSTEM "appendixd/nettools.xml">
 
-<!ENTITY all-version "cvs-20010824-0330">
-<!ENTITY all-size-kb "77,780 KB">
-<!ENTITY all-size-mb "75.96 MB">
+<!ENTITY all-version "cvs-20010827-1230">
+<!ENTITY all-size-kb "77,740 KB">
+<!ENTITY all-size-mb "75.92 MB">
 
 <!ENTITY bootscripts-version "lfs-bootscripts-cvs-20010806-0420">
 
@@ -682,9 +682,9 @@
 <!ENTITY gcc-compsize "148 MB">
 <!ENTITY gcc-time "22 minutes">
 
-<!ENTITY kernel-version "2.4.9">
+<!ENTITY kernel-version "2.4.8">
 <!ENTKTY kernel-depversion "2.4.9">
-<!ENTITY kernel-size "21,711 KB">
+<!ENTITY kernel-size "21,672 KB">
 <!ENTITY kernel-compsize-static "132 MB">
 <!ENTITY kernel-time-static "3 minutes">
 <!ENTITY kernel-compsize "Depends on options selected">