diff --git a/src/node/chainstate.cpp b/src/node/chainstate.cpp
index 41c0ff21184..626010d26f7 100644
--- a/src/node/chainstate.cpp
+++ b/src/node/chainstate.cpp
@@ -198,9 +198,10 @@ ChainstateLoadResult VerifyLoadedChainstate(ChainstateManager& chainman, const C
                 options.check_blocks);
             switch (result) {
             case VerifyDBResult::SUCCESS:
-            case VerifyDBResult::INTERRUPTED:
             case VerifyDBResult::SKIPPED_MISSING_BLOCKS:
                 break;
+            case VerifyDBResult::INTERRUPTED:
+                return {ChainstateLoadStatus::INTERRUPTED, _("Block verification was interrupted")};
             case VerifyDBResult::CORRUPTED_BLOCK_DB:
                 return {ChainstateLoadStatus::FAILURE, _("Corrupted block database detected")};
             case VerifyDBResult::SKIPPED_L3_CHECKS:
diff --git a/src/node/chainstate.h b/src/node/chainstate.h
index 7838a62d0c6..77240cafe93 100644
--- a/src/node/chainstate.h
+++ b/src/node/chainstate.h
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ struct ChainstateLoadOptions {
     bool reindex{false};
     bool reindex_chainstate{false};
     bool prune{false};
+    //! Setting require_full_verification to true will require all checks at
+    //! check_level (below) to succeed for loading to succeed. Setting it to
+    //! false will skip checks if cache is not big enough to run them, so may be
+    //! helpful for running with a small cache.
     bool require_full_verification{true};
     int64_t check_blocks{DEFAULT_CHECKBLOCKS};
     int64_t check_level{DEFAULT_CHECKLEVEL};