From: Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com>

redhat/docs: Add FAQ entry for booting between Fedora & ELN/RHEL kernels

Add an FAQ entry that provides some simple debugging suggestions for
booting between Fedora and ELN/RHEL kernels.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com>

diff --git a/redhat/docs/faq.rst b/redhat/docs/faq.rst
index blahblah..blahblah 100644
--- a/redhat/docs/faq.rst
+++ b/redhat/docs/faq.rst
@@ -35,8 +35,18 @@ resolve this properly.
 Please notify us on kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org or file an issue at
 https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/issues.
 
+3.  I am booting an ELN/RHEL kernel on Fedora (or vice versa) and the kernel 
won't boot.  What do I do now?
 
-3. How does an MR get reviewed?
+This is not uncommon and may be due to a config difference between RHEL and 
Fedora.  One key difference between the two kernels is that Fedora has enabled 
CONFIG_BTRFS where ELN/RHEL has not, and as a result ELN/RHEL kernels will not 
mount Fedora BTRFS filesystems.  If you are booting the ELN/RHEL kernel config 
on Fedora you must change these configuration values in the .config:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+   CONFIG_BTRFS=y
+   CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
+
+If that change doesn't resolve the boot failure, users should attempt to 
"flip" configs to determine the difference between the two flavors before 
reporting bugs.  The maintainers acknowledge that this can be a time consuming 
process but it is left to the user to resolve config differences when cross 
booting between flavors.
+
+4. How does an MR get reviewed?
 -------------------------------
 
 Anything Fedora specific (configs, custom patches, scripts) will be decided

--
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2239
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