Amlogic platforms as of u-boot 2022.07 are affected by a bug that breaks booting using non-EFI boot methods: https://bugs.debian.org/1027176 To work around this issue, the current u-boot-amlogic package ships two variants for each platform, one the default variant which supports EFI, and a "noefi" variant which has EFI support disabled, allowing booting with boot scripts such as those generated by flash-kernel, and syslinux/extlinux style menus such as those generated by u-boot-menu.