diff --git a/chapter07/kernfs.xml b/chapter07/kernfs.xml
index c9721113d..56521ea20 100644
--- a/chapter07/kernfs.xml
+++ b/chapter07/kernfs.xml
@@ -14,12 +14,14 @@
     <primary sortas="e-/dev/">/dev/*</primary>
   </indexterm>
 
-    <para>Various file systems exported by the kernel are used to communicate to
-    and from the kernel itself. These file systems are virtual in that no disk
+    <para>Applications running in user space utilize various file 
+    systems exported by the kernel to communicate 
+    with the kernel itself. These file systems are virtual: no disk
     space is used for them. The content of the file systems resides in
-    memory.</para>
+    memory. These file systems must exist in the $LFS directory tree
+    before you can <command>chroot</command> successfully.</para>
 
-    <para>Begin by creating directories onto which the file systems will be
+    <para>Begin by creating directories on which the file systems will be
     mounted:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS/{dev,proc,sys,run}</userinput></screen>
@@ -29,18 +31,18 @@
 
       <para>During a normal boot, the kernel automatically mounts the
       <systemitem class="filesystem">devtmpfs</systemitem> filesystem on the
-      <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory, and allow the
-      devices to be created dynamically on that virtual filesystem as they
-      are detected or accessed. Device creation is generally done during the
-      boot process by the kernel and Udev.
-      Since this new system does not yet have Udev and
+      <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory; the
+      devices are created dynamically on that virtual filesystem when they
+      are first detected or accessed. Device creation is generally done during the
+      boot process by the kernel and the udev program.
+      Since the new system does not yet include udev and
       has not yet been booted, it is necessary to mount and populate
-      <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> manually. This is
+      the <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory manually. This is
       accomplished by bind mounting the host system's
       <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory. A bind mount is
       a special type of mount that allows you to create a mirror of a
-      directory or mount point to some other location. Use the following
-      command to achieve this:</para>
+      directory or mount point at some other location. Use the following
+      command to do this:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>mount -v --bind /dev $LFS/dev</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -89,10 +91,10 @@ mount -vt tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/run</userinput></screen>
       The /run tmpfs was mounted above so in this case only a
       directory needs to be created.</para>
 
-      <para>In other cases <filename>/dev/shm</filename> is a mountpoint 
+      <para>In other host systems <filename>/dev/shm</filename> is a mount point 
       for a tmpfs. In that case the mount of /dev above will only create
-      /dev/shm in the chroot environment as a directory. In this situation
-      we explicitly mount a tmpfs,</para>
+      /dev/shm as a directory in the chroot environment. In this situation
+      we must explicitly mount a tmpfs:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>if [ -h $LFS/dev/shm ]; then
   mkdir -pv $LFS/$(readlink $LFS/dev/shm)