diff --git a/config.toml.example b/config.toml.example
index 568790ab4dd..e120b9b62b4 100644
--- a/config.toml.example
+++ b/config.toml.example
@@ -330,8 +330,8 @@
 # This is an array of the codegen backends that will be compiled for the rustc
 # that's being compiled. The default is to only build the LLVM codegen backend,
 # but you can also optionally enable the "emscripten" backend for asm.js or
-# make this an empty array (that will disable LLVM, but bootstrap will fail at
-# the time the final rustc binary is built for stage 1)
+# make this an empty array (which will disable LLVM, but that probably won't
+# get too far in the bootstrap
 #codegen-backends = ["llvm"]
 
 # This is the name of the directory in which codegen backends will get installed