diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 9d9d7ec8e43..6faaa2c7f88 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8914. Document HA support in the HDFS HdfsDesign.md.
     (Lars Francke via wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-9648. TestStartup.testImageChecksum is broken by HDFS-9569's message
+    change. (Wei-Chiu Chuang via Yongjun Zhang)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestStartup.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestStartup.java
index 08fde3e6ba1..f987fb92f20 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestStartup.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestStartup.java
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ public class TestStartup {
           fail("Should not have successfully started with corrupt image");
         } catch (IOException ioe) {
           GenericTestUtils.assertExceptionContains(
-              "Failed to load an FSImage file!", ioe);
+              "Failed to load FSImage file", ioe);
           int md5failures = appender.countExceptionsWithMessage(
               " is corrupt with MD5 checksum of ");
           // Two namedirs, so should have seen two failures