Booting DELL latitude with and without the docking station.

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I use a Dell Latitude CPx machine and have installed the 26.09.2000 QRTP
free download on it.
I normally use the PC in a docking station with a separate CRT, keyboard and
mouse. An ethernet LAN connection is also there.

When I remove my PC from the docking station (without ethernet, CRT and
external keyboard/mouse) and runs it stand-alone the machine cannot complete
the QNX boot process. The last lines before it stops are:

…
…
…
File ./swapfile successfully added as a swap device
Mode not found in table
devi-hirun kbd fd -d/dev/kbd ps2 kb -2


After that it is all dead.
I have set up the boot process do start Photon automatically.(it does not
reach that far in stand-alone)

Please advice!

Regards
Jan Otto Eriksen
Birdstep Technology ASA, Norway
joe@birdstep.org

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Jan Otto Eriksen <joe@birdstep.org> wrote:

I use a Dell Latitude CPx machine and have installed the 26.09.2000 QRTP
free download on it.
I normally use the PC in a docking station with a separate CRT, keyboard and
mouse. An ethernet LAN connection is also there.

When I remove my PC from the docking station (without ethernet, CRT and
external keyboard/mouse) and runs it stand-alone the machine cannot complete
the QNX boot process. The last lines before it stops are:

.
.
.
File ./swapfile successfully added as a swap device
Mode not found in table
devi-hirun kbd fd -d/dev/kbd ps2 kb -2

It sounds like you’ve configured Photon for a graphics mode that is only
available when you have the machine plugged into the docking station.