Hi, I bought some time ago a new parallella board, Desktop version.
It took me some time so start playing with it, just could do this in last couple of days.
The board has the green led on all the time and the ethernet led blinks in sign of network activity, but I don't get serial output and the orange ethernet led never stays on.
The board came with a power supply from Parallella but I lost the thermal tape for fixing the heatsink. I used a thermal paste instead, taking care that the heatsink didn't touched any other components and that the paste didn't touched any other components.
I used different class 10 micro SDHC cards (a Sandisk Ultra and an Adata one) with capacites ranging from 16 to 32GB. I also used a generic 8GB class 4 micro sdcard to test, all withouut success.
I'm also using that case here: https://github.com/abopen/parallella-open-case, which has a fan that is powered from the board itself. I soldered the J15 pads as instructed. But when it didn't boot, I removed it to see if anything changed.
Is there anything I might be missing? Is there a list of known working micro SD cards?
My board has SKU: P1601-01