I followed some of the instructions on the building for BeagleY-AI.
U-Boot SPL 2025.07-rc5-g4dcfdc709b8d (Aug 20 2026 - 21:12:09 -0500)
SYSFW ABI: 4.0 (firmware rev 0x000b '11.0.9--v11.00.09+ (Fancy Rat)')
SPL initial stack usage: 17024 bytes
Trying to boot from MMC2
Authentication passed
Authentication passed
Authentication passed
cannot find image node '': -1
Authentication passed
Authentication passed
Starting ATF on ARM64 core...
NOTICE: BL31: v2.12.4(release):lts-v2.12.4
NOTICE: BL31: Built : 21:09:53, Aug 20 2026
I/TC:
I/TC: OP-TEE version: 4.6.0 (gcc version 15.3.0 (GCC)) #1 Fri Aug 21 02:11:13 UTC 2026 aarch64
I/TC: WARNING: This OP-TEE configuration might be insecure!
I/TC: WARNING: Please check https://optee.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architecture/porting_guidelines.html
I/TC: Primary CPU initializing
I/TC: GIC redistributor base address not provided
I/TC: Assuming default GIC group status and modifier
I/TC: SYSFW ABI: 4.0 (firmware rev 0x000b '11.0.9--v11.00.09+ (Fancy Rat)')
I/TC: Activated SA2UL device
I/TC: Enabled firewalls for SA2UL TRNG device
I/TC: SA2UL TRNG initialized
I/TC: SA2UL Drivers initialized
I/TC: HUK Initialized
I/TC: Primary CPU switching to normal world boot
U-Boot SPL 2025.07-rc5-g4dcfdc709b8d (Aug 20 2026 - 21:13:01 -0500)
SYSFW ABI: 4.0 (firmware rev 0x000b '11.0.9--v11.00.09+ (Fancy Rat)')
Trying to boot from MMC2
Authentication passed
Authentication passed
cannot find image node '': -1
U-Boot 2025.07-rc5-g4dcfdc709b8d (Aug 20 2026 - 21:13:01 -0500)
SoC: J722S SR1.0 HS-FS
Model: BeagleBoard.org BeagleY-AI
DRAM: 2 GiB (total 4 GiB)
Core: 83 devices, 30 uclasses, devicetree: separate
MMC: mmc@fa00000: 1
Loading Environment from nowhere... OK
In: serial@2800000
Out: serial@2800000
Err: serial@2800000
Net: eth0: ethernet@8000000port@1
Press SPACE to abort autoboot in 2 seconds
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1 is current device
SD/MMC found on device 1
Failed to load 'uEnv.txt'
Scanning for bootflows in all bootdevs
Seq Method State Uclass Part Name Filename
--- ----------- ------ -------- ---- ------------------------ ----------------
Scanning bootdev 'mmc@fa00000.bootdev':
0 extlinux ready mmc 1 mmc@fa00000.bootdev.part_ /extlinux/extlinux.conf
** Booting bootflow 'mmc@fa00000.bootdev.part_1' with extlinux
1: Linux
Retrieving file: /Image.gz
append: console=ttyS2,115200n8 earlycon=ns16550a,mmio32,0x02860000 root=/dev/mmcblk1p2 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait net.ifnames=0
Retrieving file: /ti/k3-am67a-beagley-ai.dtb
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 88000000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x88000000
Working FDT set to 88000000
Loading Device Tree to 000000008ffe5000, end 000000008ffff222 ... OK
Working FDT set to 8ffe5000
Starting kernel ...
This is where it stops.
Am I not waiting long enough or did my toolchain(s) not work well enough for the kernel and u-boot variation?
Update
I think it has to do with this line… cannot find image node '': -1