diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0a1530f224..c3bfe1373b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -101,9 +101,7 @@ pip install -r requirements_nocuda.txt
 
 ```
 cd text-generation-webui
-mkdir repositories
-cd repositories
-git clone https://github.com/turboderp/exllama
+git clone https://github.com/turboderp/exllama repositories/exllama
 ```
 
 #### bitsandbytes on older NVIDIA GPUs
diff --git a/modules/exllama.py b/modules/exllama.py
index 7f32c746e7..4253e6ca1b 100644
--- a/modules/exllama.py
+++ b/modules/exllama.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     from exllama.model import ExLlama, ExLlamaCache, ExLlamaConfig
     from exllama.tokenizer import ExLlamaTokenizer
 except:
-    logger.warning('Exllama module failed to load. Will attempt to load from repositories.')
+    logger.warning('exllama module failed to import. Will attempt to import from repositories/.')
     try:
         from modules.relative_imports import RelativeImport
 
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
             from model import ExLlama, ExLlamaCache, ExLlamaConfig
             from tokenizer import ExLlamaTokenizer
     except:
-        logger.error("Could not find repositories/exllama/. Make sure that exllama is cloned inside repositories/ and is up to date.")
+        logger.error(
+            "Could not find repositories/exllama. Please ensure that exllama"
+            " (https://github.com/turboderp/exllama) is cloned inside repositories/ and is up to date."
+        )
         raise