it's not a case of setting options or a custom kernel, it involves writing code (rather delicate kernel code).
on this particular hardware, you are basically either stuck with 4GB or running another OS. On 2011-12-07, Stefan Johnson <tigerphoenixdra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
