diff --git a/integration-tests/data-dump-loading-tests/README.md b/integration-tests/data-dump-loading-tests/README.md
index 39c6dcb909..8164fd954f 100644
--- a/integration-tests/data-dump-loading-tests/README.md
+++ b/integration-tests/data-dump-loading-tests/README.md
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 We created tests for loading data dumps from mysqldump, and we run these tests through Github Actions
 on pull requests.
 
-These tests can be run locally using Docker. From the root directory of this repo, run:
+These tests can be run locally using Docker. Before you can build the image, you also need to copy the go folder
+into the integration-tests folder; unfortunately just symlinking doesn't seem to work. From the
+integration-tests directory of the dolt repo, run:
 ```bash
+$ cp -r ../go . 
 $ docker build -t data-dump-loading-tests -f DataDumpLoadDockerfile .
 $ docker run data-dump-loading-tests:latest
 ```