FATAL: Module ata_piix not found failed to create initrd image

[BONGO Abdoulkadri <kader.bongo@esmt.sn>]

hi !

many of us found this error when trying to build a kernel 2.6.x with
initrd. here is what i do :

1-install sarge beta-3
2-apt-get install kernel-package
3-apt-get install bin86
4-apt-get install libncurses-dev
5-apt-get install module-init-tools
6-apt-get install bzip2
7-make-kpkg --initrd --config=menuconfig --revision=name
kernel_image
8-dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_name1.0_i386.deb

Here is the output
--------------------------------------------
(Reading database ... 15840 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace kernel-image-2.6.4 name1.0 (using
kernel-image-2.6.4_name1.0_i386-.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kernel-image-2.6.4 ...
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
.
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.4.dpkg-tmp
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.4
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.4.25-1-386
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Setting up kernel-image-2.6.4 (name1.0) ...
...

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_4: modprobe failed
FATAL: Module ata_piix not found.
failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.4 (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status
9
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.6.4
-------------------------------

I look in /usr/sbin/mkinitrd and try to pass the ata_piix but i dont
success.
thank for help

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