Hello,
I'm a new user from germany and tries the first time KaOS. My last Computer was a MacBook Pro and now it's time to change 🙂. My knowledge with linux is minimal, a few years ago I have installad Suse-linux and a few Debian-Installation, so I know a little about apt-get but nothing about arch.
Today my new notebook arrived - a Lenovo T460s i5 with a 256GB M.2 PCIe-x4 SSD Samsung SM951 and 12 GB DDR4 RAM - really a great notebook 👍 .
So, my first action was to install the new KaOS on this notebook... but this faild with following error-message:

Boost.Python-error in Job "bootldr".

<class 'FileNotFoundError'>
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/calamares-root-vfwp29zv/boot/loader/entries/KaOS_2016.06.conf'
Traceback:

File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/bootldr/main.py" , line 212, in run
install_bootloader(boot_loader, fw_type)

File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/bootldr/main.py" , line 194, in install_bootloader
create_conf(uuid, conf_path)

File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/bootldr/main.py" , line 90, in create_conf
with open(conf_path, 'w') as f:

I have really no idea what went wrong, nor what to do now.
Can someone help me what to do?

Thanks a lot
mike

Hi and welcome! 🙂
Did you follow the installation guide? Your computer has a UEFI system, so you need some special settings. You can read the installation guide here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KaOSx/live-uefi/master/configs/shared/overlay/home/live/Desktop/info/guide.pdf Also, the installator gives you (in bold letter) all the settings that you new for a UEFI installation.
Here you can find more information about how to report problems: https://kaosx.us/docs/

Thanks loopset 🙂
first of all sorry for the late answer... . Here in germany my Internet-Provider has had an disruption for nearly 20h! Service desert germany !!!
OK, the installation guide I already knew and I had read this carefully. But it's an older guide and the new calamares looks something different. An other user seems to has a similar problem, here did it help to erase one partition - the swap partition. The user wrote, that calamares has problems with more than 3 or 4 primary partition. Puhhh, I'm a beginner and I don't understand what to do to build the partition manually for a UEFI-System 🙁. I thought to take the default partition would be the easiest way but this resulting in the error !

If it would be possible to set pictures in the forum, I would take same screenshots to explain what I mean, but didn't find a possibility nor a guide for this forum.

First we need to know how you want to install KaOS. Will you delete the windows partition?(erase all disk) or will you install KaOS next to windows (or any other system already installed)?

Please try to tell how you did your install. Did you use one of the automated options? If so, which one? Replace? Alongside?
If you choose to to setup manually, what steps did you take?

What you describe from the other user is complete different and is not an installer/calamares issue, but is the same for all ms-dos (old BIOS system default partitioning scheme). ms-dos has always been limited to 4 primary partitions. What you need for your UEFI system is a GPT partitioning table (as explained in the Guide, nothing for ms-dos/GPT or BIOS vs UEFI has changed). GPT has no limits on primary partitions, plus your error does not have anything to do with disk setup, it errors out on the last step of the installation process, when all is done, just installing the bootloader is left.

To post images, use a service like http://wstaw.org/, upload your image, then it will return you with a forum url option.

But logs are far more useful in helping you. Answer the above questions, plus post the output of (when in Live mode):

sudo blkid
sudo fdisk -l

Hello loopset, hello demn 🙂

command back, it works 🙂 🙂.
At this moment I write this answer with KaOS on my T460s. Well, what have I done.... I looked at the partition table, how it shows when I press the button "Erase disk". Then I press the "Manuell" Button and delete the Swap-Partition and go on. Now the Installer works well 🙂.
There was no partition on the SSD, the notbook was new without an OS.

I'm not sure whether calamares has not problems with too many primary partitions, but for me this workaround works. I have 12 GB RAM, so I don't think I will need a swap-partition. However I'm lucky now and many many thanks for this wonderful Distribution. It runs like clockwork 🙂.