diff --git a/chapter06/chroot.xml b/chapter06/chroot.xml
index ad297a215..590baa491 100644
--- a/chapter06/chroot.xml
+++ b/chapter06/chroot.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ such as CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS, this is a good place to set them again.</para>
 <para>From this point on there's no need anymore to use the LFS variable,
 because everything you do will be restricted to the LFS file system -- since
 what the shell thinks is <filename class="directory">/</filename> is actually
-<filename class="directory">/mnt/lfs</filename>.</para>
+the value of <filename class="directory">$LFS</filename>, which was passed to
+the chroot command.</para>
 
 <para>You have to make sure all the commands in the rest of this chapter and
 in the following chapters are run from within the chroot environment.