oh i see, yes it is green at first then a blue light also comes on.
i tried reflashing the card already with the same link you provided, the rp3 image, made no difference.
it's plugged into an ipad charger - it says on it that the output is 5.2v 2.4a 12w
i know this is a no-wifi pi but i tried plugging in a wifi adapter and the small led light on the wifi adapter didn't light up, even though a keyboard in the same USB slot gets power.
i noticed when the pi is initializing, before it prompts me to push enter, it says:
eth0: hardware isnt capable of remote wakening
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready
i tried moving around directories but quickly got lost in openwrt land.. i was hoping this was more straightforward..
edit: i removed the micro sd card and tried booting it, nothing happened, so i powered it off and put the card back in, now everytime i boot the pi and do arp -a, nothing shows at all, doing ifconfig shows the IP to have changed from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.1.1! WTF!