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On 17 Sep 2011 I started working to get ReactOS running on an embedded board made by ICOP that uses the Vortex86DX CPU. Systems using the Vortex86DX CPU are popular in embedded system programming courses and textbooks as well as some robotic systems. It therefore seems to be a nice platform to have good ReactOS support. With great ReactOS developer support I now have ReactOS running on my embedded board. You can read the ReactOS forum threads here and here if you want the details, but I hope to add the important information here ASAP. I was initially using a VDX-6324 board and encountered a few problems but upon trying the newer VDX-6324D board it worked. The BIOS of the new version of the board has a selection where "Standard IDE Compatible" can be enabled. If you have a Vortex86DX-based system with that BIOS option then you might be able to use ReactOS on your system. I have used build bootcd-54221-dbg.7z and bootcd-54221-rel.7z from here. I don't have the LAN port working at this time, but I do have one serial port working. If you want to use one serial port you'll need to use the "rel" rather than the "dbg" version, and also the "serial.sys" from r54405 or later. Any "rel" r54405 or later may just work but there aren't any of those available at this time. I hope to add more basic information here soon so please check back. Please share your ideas, comments and suggestions.
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