diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 8b20234bde..d2ab46ef07 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -5105,14 +5105,20 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -&gt; i8254</screen>
         </question>
 
         <answer>
-          <para>Let me guess. You removed
+          <para>You probably removed
             <devicename>npx0</devicename> (see &man.npx.4;)
             from your kernel configuration file because you do not have a
-            math co-processor, right? Wrong! :-) The
-            <devicename>npx0</devicename> is
-            <emphasis>MANDATORY</emphasis>. Even if you do not have a
-            mathematic co-processor, you <emphasis>must</emphasis>
-            include the <devicename>npx0</devicename> device.</para>
+            math co-processor.  The
+            <devicename>npx0</devicename> device is
+            <emphasis>MANDATORY</emphasis>.  Somewhere inside your
+            hardware lies a device that provides hardware floating-point
+            support, even if it's no longer a separate device as used
+            in the good old 386 days.
+            You <emphasis>must</emphasis>
+            include the <devicename>npx0</devicename> device.
+            Even if you manage to build a kernel without 
+            <devicename>npx0</devicename> support, it won't boot 
+            anyway. </para>
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>