We recently received four gen 1 parallella boards with pre-installed micro-sd memory cards. The boards however do not seem to boot from these cards. We have tried attaching a HDMI monitor via a uHDMI to HDMI converter, no output was detected on the screen. No IP address connected to the parallella board was found. This leads us to believe that the board will not boot from these cards, the network functionality is not up, and/or the HDMI driver is not functioning, not loaded, or not included in this setup. The SD to micro-SD adapter reads: p16z20g1-ubuntu14.01-14.03.06.img.
We are experimenting with one of the cards to see if our own install will work by use of the instructions on the parallella site.
Any information on this issue would be welcomed.