diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
index 2ba6c90c08..3c5022050f 100644
--- a/qemu-doc.texi
+++ b/qemu-doc.texi
@@ -906,10 +906,6 @@ Use @option{-kernel} to provide the Linux kernel image and
 @option{-append} to give the kernel command line arguments. The
 @option{-initrd} option can be used to provide an INITRD image.
 
-When using the direct Linux boot, a disk image for the first hard disk
-@file{hda} is required because its boot sector is used to launch the
-Linux kernel.
-
 If you do not need graphical output, you can disable it and redirect
 the virtual serial port and the QEMU monitor to the console with the
 @option{-nographic} option. The typical command line is:
diff --git a/tests/migration/stress.c b/tests/migration/stress.c
index d9aa4afe92..0c23964693 100644
--- a/tests/migration/stress.c
+++ b/tests/migration/stress.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static int stressone(unsigned long long ramsizeMB)
 
     /* We don't care about initial state, but we do want
      * to fault it all into RAM, otherwise the first iter
-     * of the loop below will be quite slow. We cna't use
+     * of the loop below will be quite slow. We can't use
      * 0x0 as the byte as gcc optimizes that away into a
      * calloc instead :-) */
     memset(ram, 0xfe, ramsizeMB * 1024 * 1024);