i have most machines running at the moment! yay.
as soon as i get home from vacation, i can fix the few remaining, and check out the state of everything, and then shut them down again for the remainder of the summer (Heat+power issues)

evidently, delmarva power had something like 300+ homes without power, which is evidently why it took them ~22 hours to fix ours (only 3 homes were affected by a transformer next to us that blew in the mild rain last weekend).

I've learned that 'glitch' is getting really flaky about booting. Everything else booted up OK, really...

So there was a flood. Whee. It was a pain to restore everything.

glitch and leningrad lost their nvram data. Took several tries for glitch's BIOS to actually boot the disk. I had to boot leningrad twice because I messed up when I reset the ethernet address.

I also forgot to turn on the external disks for autumn, so I had to reboot that. Luckily, all the network routes, DNS settings, and mounted disks came online via my changes to SYSTARTUP.COM. I still don't understand VMS bootup, though; it's taken me many tries to get that right.

The BIOS on ledge also complained about the built-in clock, but on the second boot it worked.

I think everything else came up fine, after the normal tweaks and boot commands, but I brought the systems up one at a time, because if I don't, all the simultaneous disk spin-ups tend to trip the surge protector, and everything shuts down again.