I'm attaching some handbook updates to fix bug 415175, feel free to fix any wording before applying.
Created attachment 323380 [details, diff] handbook-bootloader
Created attachment 323382 [details, diff] handbook-kernel
fixed in CVS. split out the initramfs instructions to a cross-arch <include>, linked it into the doc, added <keyval> variables to handbook-*.xml for kernel/initrd versions.