Need help with a bricked LinkSYS E8450

That early boot log with "BL2: Failed to load image id 3" sounds like major trouble. It is much too early in the boot process that anything from the full OpenWrt recovery etc. would be in play.

You likely need deeper knowledge from @daniel

But as you have serial access, the situation is likely not hopeless.

The closest similar thing that I found, is the discussion from a few months ago, starting here:
(that discussion is about bad blocks affecting fip, but closely related to broken bl2 and/or fip images)

Compared to that discussion, your log ends before the "BL31 starts" line, which might mean that your boot process fails already before the full u-boot have even started...
(...so you might just have parts of the ARM trusted firmware loader to play with)