diff --git a/books/beaglebone-cookbook/07kernel/kernel.rst b/books/beaglebone-cookbook/07kernel/kernel.rst
index 1d279679798c2b952b75edcde533da4f78721cfd..c4aded8df78285930724b57b159b56d2e0eb7642 100644
--- a/books/beaglebone-cookbook/07kernel/kernel.rst
+++ b/books/beaglebone-cookbook/07kernel/kernel.rst
@@ -12,14 +12,6 @@ You usually won't need to mess with the kernel, but sometimes you might want to
 that requires a different kernel. This chapter shows how to switch kernels. The nice thing is you 
 can have multiple kernels on your system at the same time and select from among them which to boot up.
 
-.. TODO 
-    is this still true?
-
-.. note:: 
-    We assume here that you are logged on to your Bone as *root* and superuser privileges. 
-    You also need to be logged in to your Linux host computer as a nonsuperuser.
-
-
 Updating the Kernel
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