Bricked E8450 while installing

Do you have a link? I'm not certain what you are referring to. Looks like this.

This is totally a backburner thing for me at this point, but it's behaving like it's not even talking to the NAND chip, like the SPI transceiver is misconfigured or isn't working. Weirdly, the stock firmware was working and the installer was working right up to the moment of the reboot in the console log.