linuxboot / linuxboot/fiano

Improve error messages

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@GanShun is already working on this.

Since May 9, 2019.

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Description

  • Post a style guide for warnings and errors. How validation warnings are dealt with (I know we squelch some of these warnings). When to log.Print vs log.Fatal, ...
  • Go through the code and fix up our error messages.
  • Particularly, the "file too large" error needs to be improved. It's probably the most common error to run into. It prints a lot of information, but it would print some pointers on next steps.

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