to me, it matters if its backplane or frontend patchwork. just my 2 cents

im having a hard time copying what i wrote above cuz im on jerboa mobile, but the kernel version from uname does indeed match the directory in which its looking (see above)

yeah, i’ve built an iso using archiso (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archiso, https://github.com/archlinux/archiso). i’m running the 2 modprobe commands while booted into that iso (the live environment).

i have the following packages installed on the live iso when building that image:

• arch-install-scripts
• base
• base-devel
• bind
• btrfs-progs
• cryptsetup
• dosfstools
• dracut
• edk2-shell
• efibootmgr
• git
• gptfdisk
• inetutils
• libfido2
• linux-firmware
• linux-zen
• linux-zen-headers
• lvm2
• man
• memtest86+
• memtest86±efi
• net-tools
• parted
• thin-provisioning-tools
• usbutils
• util-linux
• vim
• wge

my next steps would normally be

cryptsetup -v luksFormat /dev/vda2

which asks for a passphrase, creates a key in slot 0, and seems to succeed in encrypting the partition.

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/vda2 map-root

this asks for the passphrase to unlock, but gives the following response:

device-mapper: reload ioctl on map-root (253:0) failed: Invalid argument

and then my formatting step

mkfs.btrfs -f -L "fs-root-btrfs" /dev/mapper/map-root

clearly doesn’t work.

“pacman -Q cryptsetup” yields “cryptsetup 2.8.6-1”

“uname -a” yields

Linux larch.domain.net 7.1.3-zen1-2-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:39:38 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

i initially tried this on my laptop, bc i didn’t expect any trouble. but i’m working with a libvirt virtual machine now until i figure out the issue.

is this real? i hope its real

the black and white sticker is a dead giveaway

does stapler really mean forklift, and lager really mean storage, in german?

i get it, i collect them too. but only retail releases. no way to control the quality if the source isnt authoritative.

to me, if youre 1-to-1 copying a retail blu ray, then authoring isnt required. if youre ripping it and compressing it (losslessly or otherwise), keep it on a nas for easier access. but if youre downloading a movie from the web and burning it, i dont see the point, since its already been compressed most likely, or at least you cant be sure its a great copy. especially with the audio side.

i knew a guy who used to make full backups of redbox blu rays for archive purposes. that made sense to me.

as to why might you be trolling, well, this is the kind of troll post id make haha

if this isnt a troll, then you are one of a dying (pretty much never existed) breed

burning dvds or copying vhs tapes made sense years ago bc you needed a converter to plug your computer into a tv, and the quality was iffy. now most machines and tvs are compatible with hdmi, so going from digital to physical is like printing a mapquest route and taking a picture of it with your phone

edit: sorry i didnt provide a soln

the entire beatles discography in wav, flac and convenient 320kbps mp3 formats