I figured out and solved the problem. It appears that the initial installation of the OS failed and then upon reboot it could obviously not boot up. I just had to hold down shift on boot-up and go through the OS installation again, which completed successfully and now we are up and running. Thanks!

Hello- We got our son a Pi for Christmas, specifically the new (I think) bundle that includes an 8GB SD card with NOOBS preinstalled. We hooked everything up and were excited to see a screen allowing us to choose an OS. We picked Raspbian and were anxiously watching the progress meter and reading th...