Using a gutsy kernel on feisty?

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-06-27, fletcher johnson wrote:

> I would definitly leave the current working kernel as you suggested as a
> fall back. I can't see you breaking your system by installing the gutsy
> kernel properly as you can install any kernel you want (of course not
> guaranteed results) long as you back up your original kernel and have some
> option in grub/lilo to boot it as a fall over. In fact last time I checked
> that's what Ubuntu does when it installs a new kernel.

I'm still concerned about the risk of getting a problem similar to
this one:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/116117

After the Edgy to Feisty upgrade, kernel 2.6.17.1-11.38 is still there
but won't boot; only 2.6.20-16.29 (which has a bug that keeps
smartmontools and hddtemp from working) will boot.