diff --git a/Serving/Trillium/JetStream-Maxtext/Mixtral-8X22B/README.md b/Serving/Trillium/JetStream-Maxtext/Mixtral-8X22B/README.md
index cd544e3..d2b6a90 100644
--- a/Serving/Trillium/JetStream-Maxtext/Mixtral-8X22B/README.md
+++ b/Serving/Trillium/JetStream-Maxtext/Mixtral-8X22B/README.md
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ P99 TPOT: 16942.69 ms
 ```
 
 # Appendix Checkpoint conversion on CPU
+Note that at present we only recommend loading the checkpoint labelled 0.3, in `safetensors` format (as below), as we have seen problems with the 0.1 checkpoint in `pth` format
 
 ```bash
 # Get checkpoint from https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-inference
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ export CHKPT_BUCKET=gs://<your_bucket_name>
 export SCANNED_CHKPT_PATH=${CHKPT_BUCKET}/scanned_ckpt
 JAX_PLATFORMS=cpu python3 MaxText/llama_or_mistral_ckpt.py \
 --base-model-path=${M8x22B_DIR} --model-size=mixtral-8x22b \
---maxtext-model-path=${SCANNED_CHKPT_PATH}
+--maxtext-model-path=${SCANNED_CHKPT_PATH} --checkpoint-type=safetensors
 
 # Convert checkpoint to unscanned version
 export UNSCANNED_RUN_NAME=unscanned_ckpt