As announced by Jay Estabrook on the axp-list, there is a 2.6.24 kernel available for the Fedora 8 Alpha port (along with some other updates). You may not see these new files if you run a yum update because of yum’s cache, the directory structure on the update server has apparently been changed as far as I can tell. So simply run a yum clean all and voilà, you can install the new kernel.
Once it is installed, you need to tell aboot (the secondary boot loader for Linux/Alpha, we don’t have Grub) how to boot on the new kernel, edit you /etc/aboot.conf file and add a new configuration:
0:1/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-64.2axp.fc8 initrd=/initrd-2.6.24.4-64.2axp.fc8.img root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 selinux=off rhgb quiet
1:1/vmlinuz-2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp initrd=/initrd-2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp.img root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 selinux=off rhgb quiet
The first number is an unique identifier used by the SRM. For example, you can boot on the 2.6.23 kernel with boot dka0 -fl “1″ and on the 2.6.24 kernel with boot dka0 -fl “0″ (if your disk is recognized as DKA0 by the SRM). The second number represents the partition the kernel resides on, BSD-style. man aboot.conf is your friend if you are lost!