diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index eb4b48fc..b00f13db 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -34,10 +34,12 @@ Incompatibilities:
 
 * Dropped support for SEE.  (ELinks 0.12pre1 was the first release
   that supported SEE.)
-* Guile 2.0.0 (released on 2011-02-16) changed its license to
-  LGPLv3-or-later, which is not compatible with the GPLv2 that covers
-  ELinks.  Also, Guile has deprecated many of the functions that
-  ELinks calls.
+* Bug 1125: ELinks using Guile 2.0 crashes during startup unless
+  explicitly configured --without-gc.  Besides, Guile 2.0.0 (released
+  on 2011-02-16) changed its license to LGPLv3-or-later, which is not
+  compatible with the GPLv2 that covers ELinks.  Guile has also
+  deprecated many of the functions that ELinks calls.  Please use
+  Guile 1.8 instead.
 
 Other changes:
 
diff --git a/doc/installation.txt b/doc/installation.txt
index 674ad8f9..2c71045a 100644
--- a/doc/installation.txt
+++ b/doc/installation.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ endif::installation-webpage[]
 ifndef::installation-webpage[]
 			 See <<lua-scripting,the Elinks - Lua interface>>   \
 endif::installation-webpage[]
-			 for more info.
+			 for more info.                                     \
+			 This version of ELinks does not support Guile 2.0; \
+			 please see bug 1125.
 zlib 1.2.0.2 or later	|For handling gzip or deflate compressed documents   \
 			 both locally and sent from server.
 bzip2			|Likewise, for bzip2 compressed documents.