Apparently, though unproven, at 19:47 on Friday 15 October 2010, Mike Diehl 
did opine thusly:

> > Instead of your brute-force "yes to all" approach, newer kernels also
> > support `make localyesconfig` which takes all modules currently used in
> > the running kernel and compiles them into the new kernel. It is very
> > helpful when you already have a good but generic kernel like the one on
> > your live CD.
> 
> Oh now this is cool.  Thank you.  I'll try this, also.

You could also copy the working kernel and it's modules off the LiveCD onto 
the hard disk. It won't be perfect but at least you'd have something that 
works and can boot to assist troubleshooting. Booting and running off LiveCDs 
is both convenient and painful.


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