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diff --git a/sys/conf/NOTES b/sys/conf/NOTES
--- a/sys/conf/NOTES
+++ b/sys/conf/NOTES
@@ -192,8 +192,12 @@
#####################################################################
# Scheduler options:
#
-# Specifying one of SCHED_4BSD or SCHED_ULE is mandatory. These options
-# select which scheduler is compiled in.
+# The options below select the schedulers that are compiled in. Specifying at
+# least one is mandatory. Multiple ones can be compiled in. At boot, the
+# kernel will use ULE by default if present, with a fallback to one of the
+# compiled-in options. A specific scheduler can be requested by setting the
+# 'kern.sched.name' tunable to a scheduler name, i.e., one of the options below
+# with the SCHED_ prefix removed.
#
# SCHED_4BSD is the historical, proven, BSD scheduler. It has a global run
# queue and no CPU affinity which makes it suboptimal for SMP. It has very
@@ -202,15 +206,14 @@
# SCHED_ULE provides significant performance advantages over 4BSD on many
# workloads on SMP machines. It supports cpu-affinity, per-cpu runqueues
# and scheduler locks. It also has a stronger notion of interactivity
-# which leads to better responsiveness even on uniprocessor machines. This
-# is the default scheduler.
-#
+# which leads to better responsiveness even on uniprocessor machines.
+options SCHED_4BSD
+options SCHED_ULE
+
# SCHED_STATS is a debugging option which keeps some stats in the sysctl
# tree at 'kern.sched.stats' and is useful for debugging scheduling decisions.
#
-options SCHED_4BSD
options SCHED_STATS
-options SCHED_ULE
#####################################################################
# SMP OPTIONS:

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