diff --git a/examples/llava/README.md b/examples/llava/README.md
index 57eb42932..e42db6e5a 100644
--- a/examples/llava/README.md
+++ b/examples/llava/README.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ python ./examples/llava/convert-image-encoder-to-gguf.py -m ../clip-vit-large-pa
 5. Use `convert.py` to convert the LLaMA part of LLaVA to GGUF:
 
 ```sh
-python ./convert.py ../llava-v1.5-7b
+python ./convert.py ../llava-v1.5-7b --skip-unknown
 ```
 
 Now both the LLaMA part and the image encoder is in the `llava-v1.5-7b` directory.
diff --git a/examples/llava/llava-surgery.py b/examples/llava/llava-surgery.py
index 0a61efdfe..8b7a62fba 100644
--- a/examples/llava/llava-surgery.py
+++ b/examples/llava/llava-surgery.py
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ mm_tensors = [k for k, v in checkpoint.items() if k.startswith("model.mm_project
 projector = {name: checkpoint[name].float() for name in mm_tensors}
 torch.save(projector, f"{args.model}/llava.projector")
 
-# remove these tensors from the checkpoint and save it again
-for name in mm_tensors:
-    del checkpoint[name]
-
 # BakLLaVA models contain CLIP tensors in it
 clip_tensors = [k for k, v in checkpoint.items() if k.startswith("model.vision_tower")]
 if len(clip_tensors) > 0:
@@ -39,7 +35,7 @@ if len(clip_tensors) > 0:
             f.write("{}\n")
 
 
-torch.save(checkpoint, path)
+    torch.save(checkpoint, path)
 
 print("Done!")
 print(f"Now you can convert {args.model} to a regular LLaMA GGUF file.")