diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
index 2fb2c59e07..eee97eba49 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
@@ -175,13 +175,6 @@ XXX: What message?  Put it inside the screen output above.
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       </step>
 
-      <step><para>If this volume will be used as a root device for
-        booting the system, then the following command must be issued
-        before the file system is created:</para>
-
-        <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fdisk -vBI /dev/stripe/st0</userinput></screen>
-      </step>
-
       <step><para>A partition table must be created on the new volume
         with the following command:</para>