Non-geek version: the network is hosed. The hardware is hosed. The software is hosed. I will be home "sick" tomorrow from work to migrate all to new hardware, which has been pending for some months.

Well, problems with lorien due to today's powerloss are threefold:

The cable modem lost its widdle mind, no longer believes in our static IP addresses, and only wants to go online as a DHCP client. So, our workstations are up, but even if lorien were functional, it wouldn't be up.

lorien's hardware is not functional: there a hardware failure on an extended particion of its remaining IDE drive (the other one failed awhile ago)

lorien's software is not functional:The /boot partition overflowed during the recent software upgrade, causing issues between kernel versions; the goldurned thing won't boot, and the modules don't match the kernel.

Now, the good news: