Calamares

[karl]

Hi all

I've been at this for some time and I can't get it to run either way

I keep getting this error, I'm booting from a USB, tried booting from another PC as well

Skywave Linux cannot be installed. Calamares was unable to load all the configured modules.
this is a problem with the way Calamares is being used by the distribution
The following modules could not be loaded

partition@partition
partition@partition
bootloader@bootloader

I'm trying to install it onto a SSD drive on the PC, I have three other OS platforms on this PC and I'm trying to install a 4th, Why because we can well I'm hoping to, my latest grub is this

how do we fix the issue with Calamares

can any one explain Configuring Grub2 to Boot Skywave Linux I'm alittle lost on this bit, I did try but it loops back to my grub menu

[ksansr]

can you boot into the terminal? (probably hit F5 mid boot),
try: (sudo) grub install
: (sudo) grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
: update then reboot ie; sudo pacman -Syyu, or sudo apt-get update...

(that's a direct copy from someone else on another forum, but has worked for me in the past)
(apologies for not giving credit, but i only have the commands scribbled down)

if you have 3 other os's + existing boot partition? + a swap?
are the 3 os's all primary partitions?
not really just a calamares problem if so.

any installer will only be able to use up to four primaries.
you'd need to set boot - (swap - if wanted) - logical - (-where you can set 4 primaries),eg:(skywave,arch, gentoo,ubuntu),
which then gives you the possibility of having another 2 logical partitions, which could be further divided...
(and though i've never bothered trying myself, it could be possible to split each logical partition into further logical partitions, giving u even more os's..)
the grub, grub2, efi, uefi (depending on hardware), will always be taken from the last os installed - unless you are happy configuring that.
you could set each os to have the MBR as the boot, but it would still need grub flagged as boot.

if it's nothing to do with how you've partitioned your drive, then i'd suggest that either the iso image, the usb stick, or, worst case, your harddrive is corrupted...

• chk out the manpages for the various grubs
• archwiki is always worth looking at, even if an os is debian or other os based

[karl]

No they are on 4 separate hard drives, Ubuntu having the main grub, Win11, Dragon OS and the 4th drive been a 120 SSD has the ISO for skywave, whick works, but I'm trying to install the skywave OS ( ISO ) to the 4th drive so I can make changes, so every time I reboot I loose it all and have to start again if you get what I mean, been that its read only OS

I'm quiet new to this, does the drive need to be formatt into parttions first ?

[morel]

Hi, i have the same issues with Calamares : The following modules could not be loaded

partition@partition
partition@partition
bootloader@bootloader

Here the output of :

sudo -E calamares -d : 
(...) 
2025-03-08 - 13:25:55 [1]: void Calamares::ModuleManager::loadModules()
2025-03-08 - 13:25:55 [1]:     ERROR: Module "partition@partition" not found in module search paths. 
     "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules" 
2025-03-08 - 13:25:55 [6]: virtual void Calamares::ViewModule::loadSelf()
2025-03-08 - 13:25:55 [6]:     ViewModule "users@users" loading complete. 
2025-03-08 - 13:25:55 [6]: virtual void Calamares::ViewModule::loadSelf()
2025-03-08 - 13:25:55 [6]:     ViewModule "summary@summary" loading complete. 
2025-03-08 - 13:25:55 [1]: void Calamares::ModuleManager::loadModules()
2025-03-08 - 13:25:55 [1]:     ERROR: Module "partition@partition" not found in module search paths. 
     "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules" 

(...)  

2025-03-08 - 13:25:56 [1]:     ERROR: Module "bootloader@bootloader" not found in module search paths. 
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules"

but there is a module "bootloader" in "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules" with

  ls /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/bootloader
 bootloader.schema.yaml main.py module.desc test.yaml

[morel]

Ok ! I've just read that Calamares don't work very well on Skywave on https://skywavelinux.com/skywavelinux-clone-with-rsync.html