I want to thank everyone that replied. I have gone to google for information about openbsd, i386, pae, and similar. I see that there was a talk done back in 2006 or so about PAE on i386. I see some old old old threads about it working, not working, working again, not working again, breaking amd64 and so on. I see several mentions of "just turn on the option" but "the option" they mention isn't listed in "man 4 options" (I686_PAE) and I see nothing about PAE when I do a "config -e -o /bsd.pae /bsd.mp" to try to enable this with config. I do see the file "pmapae.c" in the src folder, but I have no idea how to utilize it since I've not build a custom kernel since I first picked up OpenBSD (2.9) many years ago. I've done the steps to use config to create the Makefile and so on using GENERIC.MP as the base. I know I should copy that and add an option and do this again, but since "man 4 options" doesn't show the appropriate option, can someone who has actually gotten this to work help me out with how to proceed from here?
Sorry, if this can't be done. Some people were saying it can't, and some were saying it can, but you need to use i386 PAE to do it. Others said use amd64 but these are 32bit processors, so I didn't think amd64 would work. This makes me think that the correct answer is "i386 PAE" but I'm having trouble finding how to do that. Thanks again for all that replied, and I do understand that if this involves building a custom kernel to turn on the option I forfeit support under that kernel :) Stefan Johnson
